Word: soggyness
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President Eisenhower was just returned from West Point, the class of '15 reunion and the homecoming football game (Army 53, Colgate 7). Defense Secretary Neil McElroy had gone home to Cincinnati after watching football in Columbus (Ohio State 47, Northwestern 6). Then the news of Sputnik II rattled over...
Four Winds is rather like something by Noel Coward as adapted by a German moralist and retranslated into English. In a certain sense, through its own gift of tediousness and soggy small talk, it mirrors an expensively empty world. But its truths are the dreariest truisms, its gamut a mere...
All of these tendencies are absurd, objectionable and of negative survival value. The British will not last. The only thing that keeps them alive at all is their sludge-weighted coffee, warm martinis and tiors d'oeuvres made exclusively by smearing stale anchovy paste on soggy crackers." Columnist Buchwald...
Governor Renison apparently hopes that Jagan in power will either mature or fail badly enough to break his spellbinding hold on the voters. The British do not doubt that Jagan is as Red as ever, but the line he now talks is quite different from 1953, when he promised to...
If some of the poetry is a bit soggy, almost all of the prose--narrative and expository--is delightful. Juan Alonso presents the story of a dream and Peter Heliczer continues to live one. Both concern themselves with sex in perfection and both wind up in slight and lively disappointment...