Word: rabelaisian
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...Loire between Meung and Orleans there is a bubbling well by which "the master" sat, and a stone table on which he is said to have written. Add a weeping willow tree, and the late great Anatole France has made a Chinese sage of Rabelais-scholarly, ruminative, hardly Rabelaisian. France sought to unroll this innocuous picture before Argentine audiences (in 1909). But the Bishops of Buenos Aires, having heard of Rabelais' earthy humor, and having heard of the impious Anatole France, denounced them both. The pious dared not listen to the dean of the Academic. "There...
...given melody" is perhaps the conflict between passion and reason, it is outnoised by his myriad irrelevant themes. If he has any "fixed rules," they are well camouflaged in a medley of deliriously discordant, rarely harmonious, characters-famous Artist Bidlake whose voluptuous youth has reluctantly passed into caustic Rabelaisian senility; his writer-son who flings aside a reproachful mistress for the wanton daughter of a musty scientist; a suave sadist who bullies, tortures, kills, for the sheer thrill of it; an editor-publisher, bitterly caricatured, who fleeces his authors, but shows his mistress an almost inhuman tenderness; a conversational philosopher...
...good for his health to spend weeks and weeks indoors. When the danger, whatever it was, had passed "Boo Boo" turned up again at his old haunt, a multi-roomed suite in a Philadelphia hotel. Once again the "mob" made whoopee. Once again "Boo Boo" played emperor among his rabelaisian underlings and generous host to out-of-town visitors. Visiting sport-writers among whom "Boo Boo" is universally popular, often received bottles of whiskey soon after they register at their Philadelphia hotels. There is never any explanation of these presents, but they have tended to increase the Hoff reputation...
...pure gratitude be it said that all Yale was there in a body; in such numbers, in fact, that to cross the floor was a suicidal undertaking. Only at a Harvard party can one behold girls who are known to one's family shining in an atmosphere at once Rabelaisian and refined, overlooking the form and enjoying the substance of the spirit of revelry rampant...
...version" recites the beauty and whimsicality of the heroine, her generous disposition towards regiments and regiments of the military. No wedding is recorded, yet suddenly, almost miraculously, she brings forth a son called "the little Marine." His exploits are then made the subject of exhaustive saga, beside which the Rabelaisian Odysseys of Gargantua and Pantagruel dwindle to commonplace proportions...