Word: raffish
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...special local deities. Chichicastenango Indians lit candles in the church, then offered candles, liquor and even crosses on a three-foot-high stone figure of the pagan god Pascual-Abaj on a hill behind the church. Santiago Atitlán's favorite was Maximón, a raffish deity with four hats and an uninhibited libido...
MOUNTOLIVE by Lawrence Durrell. This third book of a brilliantly conceived tetralogy is the least so far published, but it still makes most contemporary fictioners seem like placid carpenters. Against its motley Egyptian background, a raffish, colorful lot of native and international characters plot, sin and love with an intensity that edges every page with fever...
Dreamlike Vision. Desmond yammers and rants his life story from within a railway carriage that shuttles between Dundalk and Dublin. He is queer for trains, and, as the scenes seen from the windows unfold and blur into episodes from his raffish life, it is clear that he is queer about a lot of other things, too-notably small steamboats, chaffinches, a girl called Yvette, and an uncle with the improbable name of Melchizedek. Desmond begins his maniacally brilliant reveries after a gaseous bout at the dentist's, where he acquires new crockery, i.e., false teeth, and a desire...
Thomas Whitbread publishes seven of his poems, poems that give a tolerant and patient look at life and nature, a look simply and often beautifully expressed. Whitbread's work has a raffish, sentimental quality about it; the poetry dotes on objects familiar to everyone, and a reader is not ashamed to chuckle and sigh along with the poet. Among the seven, "To a Doting Parent" is the most light-hearted, "Hill" the most serious. The former, set in staccato three-line stanzas and concluding with a jolly exhortation, "So cram your baby full of candy:/What quicker way to make...
London. To make way for a new road junction, London's urban planners recently decreed the destruction of The Elephant and Castle, a fabled 200-year-old pub, which lent something of the raffish, robust flavor of 18th century England to the whole London district of Southwark...