Word: shay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shall not bother you with symptoms, except to say that I am now having recurrent liver trouble, plus pretty nearly all the other afflictions normal for a 53-year-old man in a tired, rundown condition. My doctor says, in effect, that I am like the One Hoss Shay just prior to its famous last journey-still able to take the road, but unless immediately repaired, quite likely to come apart for good...
...professional standards, and yet it is very important that editors have the courage to print the work of promising, but as yet unpolished, authors. However, the reader of the winter Mosaic ought to humble himself before the rampant audacity of the editorial board that has chosen to print Jonathan Shay's I'm Here, Are You There? The editors deserve blame because they, as men in some command over their intellects, have allowed a person with none over his to expose his inadequacy in public...
...that Shay cannot write coherent English, or to castigate him for his benighted views on Christianity would be valid, but not to the point. Likewise, it is altogether true but unnecessary to mention that he exercises incredible pretension in trying to encompass three or four religions, psychoanalysis, existentialism and the consciousness-expanding drugs all in ten pages...
...relief to find that the other two articles in in this issue did not follow Mr. Shay's pattern of insobriety. But here the relief ended. Charles Vernoff's Defense of Neo-Hasidism answers Judith Kegan's diatribe against halfway-Hasids, which appeared in Mosaic last spring. Miss Kegan, says Vernoff, overstates her case when she debunks students who are only superficially enchanted with traditional Jewish mysticism. He argues instead that these spiritual dabblers ought to be encouraged, since they may eventually find true faith. Writing from palpable ignorance on this subject. I am unable to say whether Vernoff speaks...
...Graves explained it last week to the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, a battered brass cooking pot can have baraka, but not a new spun-aluminum one; an old pair of trousers may have it, or a poem, or a wonderful one-hoss shay...