Word: ribaldly
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...fanatical Islamic Marxism, and lecher extraordinaire. Ellello*u continually varies his narrative between the third and the first person--"There comes a time in a man's life," he explains in the midst of crisis, "when he thinks of himself in the third person"--but never varies in his ribald, poetic, heart-driven rhetoric. Revolutionary and demagogue, seducer and saint, political puritan and sexual adventurer, he sees Kush as an extension of himself--a citadel of purity besieged by the persistent corruption of American capitalism and, worse, Western morals. He rejects it all, railing and carping in Updike's brilliant...
...Hitler aftermath of political divisions and haunted affluence. One mark of Grass's success is the uneasiness he caused the average German of his own World War II generation. In a tradition where philosophy and history stand on pedestals of grand abstractions, Grass's earthiness and ribald ironies came as a peasant's rude truths...
...first major exhibition of its kind ever mounted in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Crafts is showing 33 pieces of "New Stained Glass," devoted to small, "personal" works by leading artists that range from Miroesque abstraction to ribald political satire. One offbeat work by Californian Richard Posner, 29, is called The Big Enchilada 1975; it depicts in allegorical terms the White House infighting over Watergate. A similar show at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles drew 2,000 people on weekends, while another recent exhibition in the Washington suburb of Reston was jammed during its six-week...
...Home Free were a scathing satire, it would be far more palatable. The author seems to feel that the attitudes and symbols of the late Sixties deserve some resounding criticism yet he doesn't deliver it in a credible manner. Rather than utilize the device of ribald humor to jibe at the mores and habits of the time, Wakefield has written a book lacking in wit and devoid of genuine style. As for evoking the mood of the period, his effort to throw in a bunch of song snippets, stereotypical characters, and references to Vietnam falls well short...
...Long Island estate of wealthy Collector Colonel Ralph Isham, who had bought the bulk of the Boswell papers from Boswell's heirs. Yale purchased the papers in 1949, after Isham had fallen on hard times, and Pottle took charge. Boswell's London Journal, full of ribald details of night life along the Thames, was an international bestseller in 1950, but volumes since then have subsided to a series of scholarly thuds. Volume X, The Laird of Auchinleck, which traces Boswell's life from the summer of 1778 to the fall of 1782, is scheduled to be published...