Word: prolixity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obsessed by the search for a kidnaped four-year-old child, as well as a hunt for clues to his own early background, and the attempt to dekidnap himself and all his friends who have been stolen away from their childhood into an adopted adulthood. The excellent but dumfoundingly prolix result is an often funny, painfully intense psychological detective story filled with Double-Crostics, Nabokovian word games and revelations that tantalizingly obscure as much as they reveal...
...series of daily swims and visits to fascinating ruins, the passengers gathered on the ship's deck for a two-hour working meeting. "Society and Human Settlements: Policies for the Future" was the stated theme of the conference, but policies rarely emerged. The language unfortunately was almost unfailingly prolix, sententious and jargon ridden...
More of everything-particularly 'big, rich, fat, square Christmas books-seems to be the order of the season. Many are bought at the Frankfurt Book Fair from enterprising European publishers and imported wholesale. Several contain perfunctory yet prolix texts by scholars who take the money but regard the work as intellectual slumming; and the pictures are stuck in at random like plums in a Christmas pudding. Each year, though, a few more big books show encouraging signs of aim and editing. Still others are notable for size, subject matter, outrageous pricing and, occasionally, sheer beauty. Among the selections listed...
...married the madam of a Jacksonville sporting house, or at least lived with her. Lionized. In the 68 years since Crane's death, two biographies, a thinly disguised biographical novel, and scores of literary essays have tried to grasp the causes of his failure. This massive, prolix biography by Author Stallman, a literature professor at the University of Connecticut, comes as a refreshing if formidable change. Professor Stallman refuses to truckle to the notion that all things in heaven and earth are simply dreams in Freudian psychology and rejects the theories of earlier biographers that Crane was a young...
...bourgeois publicity campaign that seems to accompany him wherever he goes. (Dickey has had the full Life magazine treatment, with photographs of him in his various uniforms.) More to the point, his critics deplore the occasional unrevised look of his poems--and certainly he can be, at times, both prolix and dull. Some would call him tasteless, but after all, tastes differ...