Word: reynard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Otis Reynard...
...actor in search of a role. Says Son John Lloyd Wright: "I can think of him . . . as Don Quixote, to whom every windmill was a woman in distress; as Apis, who was conceived by a bolt of lightning; as Ferdinand, who loved the aroma of flowers; as Reynard, whose affection at times was no match for his appetite...
Despite many contrary opinions, Reynard still plainly considers himself as a much put-upon individual, "as faultless as a newborn infant ... a man of piety and a pillar of religion." As Grimbart the Badger, his long-suffering nephew, often pointed out, Reynard was frequently to be found at his devotions...
Affection v. Appetite. The story of Reynard has been variously interpreted. Thomas Carlyle called it "a wild parody of human life." Medievalists have seen in it a parable of the struggle between church and state. But plain readers will always love Reynard simply as a prime deflator of stuffed shirts and a delightful rogue who always gets away with...
...know how it is," Reynard confided to Grimbart. "One cannot always keep himself as holy as if he lived in a monastery. The fault is not always with me. Take, for example, that confounded Hare. The rascal was as fat as butter. I loved that Hare but he would go scampering around under my nose, and the time came when affection was no longer a match for appetite...