Word: rabelaisian
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...trip, they took seven, with many a layover for repairs and beachcombing. Once they made $50 catching kingfish; poker games showed a profit; they poached a sheep, paid for it later out of the fee collected on an opium-runner's errand. Diversions included their own brand of Rabelaisian horseplay, drinking bouts, a couple of carnivals, acquaintance with many an odd character...
...case with Celine's book and Miller's Tropic of Cancer, the obscenity of Lawrence's report has no Rabelaisian gusto to make it bearable or give it meaning: it is monotonous, mechanical, uninspired and gross, a neurotic explosion of disgust rather than an uninhibited outbreak of masculine high spirits...
...most laymen, the routine activities of the staff of a big hospital are shrouded in sanitary mystery. The stories concerning them are usually grim, sometimes Rabelaisian, seldom sensible. Last week the sensible, matter-of-fact autobiographical chronicle of a onetime nurse gave a good, clear picture of the day-to-day work and training involved. Written by the wife of Psychiatrist Smith Ely Jelliffe, For Dear Life is an unpretentious book, makes up in honesty what it lacks in literary finish...
...Editor Lanier left. There followed a long, vague tinkering with Golden Book's editorial policy, a steady decline in its subscribers. The magazine changed editors four times, page size twice. Its editorial formula wavered to include radical political speeches, varying proportions of contemporary stories and, of late, heavily Rabelaisian fiction. Advertising management was equally unsteady, equally botched. By 1935 these faults had cut the subscriptions...
Critics of Author Caldwell who had begun to think that his zany style was effective largely because of its Rabelaisian grossness last week were thinking again, after reading Kneel to the Rising Sun, his latest collection of short stories. As in all Caldwell books, the phallic content was high-though not so gamy as to attract the attention of the censor-but the best of these 17 stories were more cathartic than aphrodisiac. Some of them...