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Word: psst (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are many other pieces under such titles as Beat Me, Post-Impressionist Daddy, Caution-Soft Prose Ahead, Psst, Partner, Your Peristalsis is Showing. They handle, with the expertness required for delivering a two-headed baby, the aching half-lunacies which turn up as a normal part of U.S. life. They use one of the rangiest and most microscopically exact vocabularies in modern letters-a vocabulary drawn entirely from those ancient, current and emergent clichés of which Flaubert and Joyce were both collectors and which are as diagnostic of a civilization as any ten theses on the Zeitgeist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Is Written | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

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