Word: soggyness
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IN a recent article in Encounter, the English poet and critic John Wain complained about the present "flabby, soggy period of instant poetry," and said that "the poet is seen more and more as a person who appears in public and strikes attitudes. As rhetoric disappears from political life . . . it...
Anthony Burgess, a writer of great wit and erudition, once dared to put the goddess of love in a soggy English garden and between damp English sheets. Only a writer as talented as Burgess could have succeeded in such an unpromising enterprise.
The rest of the story is predictably soggy and unbelievable. Cavanagh went to Andover for a year and beat all the well-coached, well-dressed country-club preppies. He went to Harvard and played number one much of the season for the freshman tennis team.
Undoubtedly. some golfers will hit the water on the fifteenth hole, but not as many times as the Crimson golf team while it continnes to practice on a soggy course.
Sometime in the dark of that night a huge meal was partially consumed. Steak was there and eaten, and yogurt with kumquats and plum wine from Japan was drunk and coconuts were cracked with hammers and given to dogs. But the piece of resistance of the engagement feast was a...