Word: sloth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sloth slept with his eyes wide open in a sticky skein of cobwebs, and Anger was a spiky, comic-book monster which had just smashed a blood-spattered plate-glass window. Lust, the shock of the group-as well as the bottom in bad taste-was a leering, loathsome human figure, festooned with genitalia and en-ries cased in a prophylactic tube...
...fact remains that only about half of the graduating class shows up for the week of unmitigated senior glory. This is a preposterous state of affairs. For one thing, it leads the outside world to suspect that a large body of the class gives way to sloth. Admittedly, a senior who plans to see his four years through to the end is going to have to hustle around a little getting tickets and hotel reservations for his relatives. Too, the whole affair isn't exactly for free...
...miles of airways; its vast, nationalized (but hardly modernized) railroad system, fourth largest in the world; the radio station at New Delhi, looking like a maharaja's palace; and its huge cotton mills. The film is cut and paced to make forcefully clear the disorder and vitality, the sloth and aspiration of an ancient country in the process of becoming a modern nation...
Still lazier anglers can find an outlet for their sloth in "tip-up" or "tilt" fishing. The fisherman merely sets his rig over an ice-hole and retires to the security of a bazing fire on the shore...
...living in wild extravagance with a "saucer-eyed" mulatto prostitute and seeking in absinthe and opium an antidote to what he considered the horrors of the Steam Age. He was, he wrote, a victim of "Acedia, the malady of monks," the deadly weakness of the will which leads to sloth and idleness. He fought against it with terror, filled his Journals with resolves to "work like a madman...