Word: priggish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dell' arte has led his Modern Jazz Quartet into music of great cerebration and even greater anemia. Lewis' music often seems too fragile even to be called jazz; but now a new group of jazz composers has arrived with the claim that they are uniquely "serious"-a priggish way of saying that they've been to school...
Judging by this petulant, priggish and reticent autobiography, Bryher seems to have been daydreaming through most of her encounters with the personalities who made modern literature. She recalls almost nothing of her talks with James Joyce or William Butler Yeats. She was invited often to the salon of Gertrude Stein, but spent most of the time in the corner, gossiping-about what, she does not say-with Alice B. Toklas. When that masterful raconteur Norman (South Wind} Douglas asked her to hike with him across Italy, Bryher thought of the disgrace of failure-and said no. Introduced to Andre...
...Richwick-priggish, prudish bachelor that he is-perseveres. He lets it be known that she is the mentally retarded daughter of a sister in Scotland and engages a nurse for her who has specialized in backward children. Richwick, who narrates the story, and Mrs. Burnley, the nanny, settle down to their labor of love: turning a vixen into a girl...
...protagonist, a priggish young zoo administrator, is not of much interest, the quarrelsome old curators are a fine pride of toothless lions. The dialogue sounds just like human speech, and the novel has violence, sodomy and even a little humor. The book leads nowhere on its own, and as satire it lacks a discoverable satiree. One British critic suggested somewhat desperately that Wilson is discussing the European Common Market, but significantly he did not say whether he thinks the author thinks that the Common Market is good or bad. In the end, the only message that comes through is Wilson...
...wife is imaginative and beautiful. The husband is decent though somewhat priggish and admits that "sex was never my strong subject." The other man is a brilliant scientist who is also a cad and a workmanlike seducer. These characters might result in a story as obvious and predictable as any triangle, but with a special kind of emotional geometry, Scottish Author James Kennaway has arrived at a taut, arresting and convincing novel...