Word: saxonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business was to save souls as quickly and as widely as possible." Evangelical anti-intellectualism reached its zenith in the revivalist Billy Sunday, who hated learning like hellfire. "What do I care," he scoffed, "if some little dibbly-dibbly preacher goes tibbly-tibbling around because I use plain Anglo-Saxon words? Jesus was no dough-faced, lick-spittle proposition. Jesus was the greatest scrapper that ever lived...
...review "God's Great Outdoors" [May 24], you mention "fancy cussin'"; but the form quoted is not the same one I was taught years ago by an authority on the subject. For your information, here is my version, which rhymes, incidentally, and has real movement and Anglo-Saxon alliterative coloring...
...winningly. He trusts absolutely, and he is as pretty as a hill of granite. He can make anyone laugh. He can talk a man under the table about literature, displaying huge sophistication and no cant. He reads rapidly, but he gives a book its due: a novel like Anglo-Saxon Attitudes costs him only two hours, but Moby Dick is worth four days, and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy took him "just over three months." He is a walking concordance to Shakespeare. His mind rings with English verse from all centuries and of all qualities, both great and frivolous...
...great interests in tomorrow's world. (1944) Perhaps it might be possible to renew Franco-Russian solidarity in some fashion, which, even if repeatedly betrayed and repudiated, remains no less a part of the natural order of things both with regard to the German danger and the Anglo-Saxon efforts to assert their hegemony. (1944) I am convinced that if France took the initiative to summon Europe to organize itself, in particular with German help, the whole European atmosphere from the Atlantic to the Urals would be changed...
...impossible to decide who gets top honors among the cast. Jill Saxon's portrayal of Constance Neville is clearly the work of a natural comedienne; her timing is excellent, so that her sardonic asides and arch remarks on the mistakes of the night come off brilliantly. Charlotte Eakin as Miss Hardcastle, the "bar-maid," and Steve Botein as her father, imposing and imposed upon, give less consistent performances, but their roles are much longer and more difficult. Miss Eakin is troubled by her voice, which sometimes seems in danger of climbing so high it will disappear...