Word: slothfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyone who read A Clockwork Orange before having his eyeballs poached by Stanley Kubrick's movie version knows Anthony Burgess as a writer with a hearty appetite for the cosmic bite into such subjects as original sin, good v. evil and spiritual sloth-not to mention the need for individual moral choice. He is also intimidatingly prolific and versatile...
...poet snores through the months of dormancy, then for a moment slips free of neurosis, professional chores, friends, money problems, sexual despair, family clatter and habits of sloth, and writes six lines. Four of these are bad, and as he sinks back into the murk at the bottom of his mind, he scratches them out. In a working lifetime he may only slip free for a very few days of these moments, and may accumulate enough good lines to fill at best a few hundred pages...
Frank moves with the cat-like precision of a man who fears that the slightest delay, the faintest sign of tarry, will be interpreted as sloth by those who so impatiently await their pizza...
DARTMOUTH-COLUMBIA--The Big Green, unfortunately, are back in business. The Dartmouth win over Harvard worked like silicone for the Greenies, inflating their confidence and boosting their title stock. Columbia, with the resignation of Frank Navarro, will be loose as sloth with diarrhea. But it won't help. The Greenies will feel their oats for the first time in a long time. Dartmouth 37, Columbia...
...shrill hope, if not of heaven, at least of Judgment Day. He was also civilized, witty and endlessly inventive. He could write of himself without being a bore, recording "Thoughts of his own death/ like the distant roll/ of thunder at a picnic," wryly admitting that "Gluttony and Sloth have often protected him from Lust and Anger," and boasting gently that he was not vain "except about his knowledge of metre and his friends...