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...bachelor, was a homosexual. His inability to establish close relationships with women, argues the author, stemmed from his admitted "extreme physical modesty" and a feeling that the desired "ideal of mutual understanding" was unattainable in marriage. Van Dusen also points out that Hammarskjold was too much of an intellectual prig to have had much luck with women anyway. When a friend once asked him why he was not interested in an attractive Swedish girl, Hammarskjold solemnly replied: "She didn't appreciate T. S. Eliot...
...Funeral. The reader is amazed at her amazement. The rest of the book is a merciless record of the trivia of death-old age and bed wetting, pubic baldness, enemas, Levin tubes, indignity, pain-all made tolerable because it also sets down the stages by which this renowned intellectual prig came to terms with her natural feelings and at the end allowed herself tears at a Catholic funeral, without even sneering at the priest beyond pointing out that he had trousers on under his chasuble. It acknowledges: "I did not understand that one might sincerely weep for a relative...
...reservists during the 1961 Berlin crisis. P. S. Wilkinson, the title character of this first novel, follows the same course. It is not good manners to inquire how much further the resemblance can be carried, because P. S. Wilkinson is tedious, self-pitying, unsufferably sensitive, and a prig. He did not enjoy his Army service in Korea. He also does not enjoy the company of his father, memories of school, sex, lack of sex, working in a bank, or much else. Other characters, some of whom might have been interesting, are perceived only by a kind of melancholic sonar: Wilkinson...
FRIEDA LAWRENCE, edited by E. W. Tedlock Jr. In the correspondence and other collected writings of his wife, D. H. Lawrence is pictured more as a prig than an immoralist, she as a lesser but fascinating Lawrencian heroine...
...most all-encompassing, intoxicating forces you'll ever come up against." Take care not to be pushy, either, added Calvin B. Hoover, Duke University economist who spoke at Duke. If anyone realizes that "you are grooming yourself for leadership, you will be considered the insufferable prig which you would be." And thus was Youth once again infused with the distilled wisdom of Age and Experience...