Word: queerer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...iron bedstead and clung for dear life. He was dragged forth, wearing only his pyjamas . . . His clothing was thrown after him." A Point for Jesuits. After this disaster, Rolfe tried to have himself committed to an insane asylum, then fled to London and buried himself in surly isolation, getting queerer by the minute. He always contended that he could speak cat lan guage, and he proved it by jabbering in the moonlight in such a way that the local tabbies came by dozens and prowled between his legs. He wore a ring with a sharp spur in the bezel...
Sunset & Main. Hollywood still strains the outsider's credulity and the insider's nerves. It still has more feuds than Tennessee, more phonies than Times Square, queerer logic than Wonderland, and stranger mores than almost any place in or out of this world. But, fearful of its reputation-which at times has been several degrees below zero-it knocks itself out trying to convince the world that Sunset Boulevard is just an extension of Main Street. For the past decade, the U.S. has been flooded with pictures of stars scrubbing their floors, baking cakes, sewing clothes and doing...
...Fall of Valor, Other Voices, Other Rooms, The City and the Pillar), most U.S. readers will hardly need New Directions' radar to detect the trend; but with sophomoric emphasis N.D. XI detects it anyhow in half a dozen inverted short stories and prose fragments. The queen of the queerer pieces is a collection of excerpts from Parisian Jean Genet's lushly symbolic novel, Our Lady of Flowers (explains Editor Laughlin in an introductory note: "Genet uses the pronouns more or less interchangeably...