Word: priggish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paced comic novel, Irish-Scottish Honor Tracy emerges as a satirist wielding bludgeon and scalpel in defense of the Establishment-that in domitable, mutual-aid group of clergy, big business and old school ties who rule Britain, no matter who wins the elections. Her hero, a proper and rather priggish young Briton named Henry Lamb, is sent to Trinidad in the West Indies as correspondent of Torch, a lit'ry weekly "that's going to teach us all to live." In Trinidad, gushes Torch's lisping editor, "the dwegs and outcasts of the community now are forging...
Lawrence regarded the coal miner Morel with a somewhat priggish distaste, and the attitude marred his novel. Howard's Morel has a clumsy kindness and a drunkard's fitful dignity. He is no mere brute, although he has been brutalized by the pits in which he has grubbed since he was twelve. There is still no understanding between father and son, but Howard makes it clear, as Lawrence did not fully do, that this is part of the younger Morel's great loss...
Freedom, or License? Sir: Scratch one more American university from the shrinking list of free academic institutions! If Illinois' priggish President Henry considers ex-Professor Koch's condonation of sex , breach of academic responsibility [April 18], he joins a troop of travelers along the road to unreason...
Briskly staged by Joseph Anthony, The Best Man gets an able production. Melvyn Douglas is firm, suave and never priggish; Frank Lovejoy is much more than a mere stage villain; and Lee Tracy, fine as the ex-President, leaves a void when he is killed off before...
...fear that all his creative juices will dry up, or that he will "do a Dylan Thomas and blow up with beer." His next literary project is far from juiceless. He hopes "to do something big, rambling, and perhaps rather bawdy. My theory is if you get too priggish and rule out the bawdy, you also lose the tenderness. The two things march together, as they did for the Elizabethans...