Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just a year ago, ailing and deeply depressed by the death of his wife, and about to step down as Chancellor of the Exchequer, "Rab" had helped to make a tepid conference more tepid, and had lost his place in the leadership stakes to the debonair Macmillan. Now he bounced back with the kind of clear, practical talk that shaped the "New Toryism" with which the party won its way back to power in 1950. With wit and humor, Rab Butler apprised the party of the ever-changing path to office: "In the Middle Ages you bullied your...
...English, that are all the rage with Zanzibar's native girls, who now wear various amorous slogans written on their bright robes. By the time she drove observantly around the island, the most suggestive such bids to pitch woo seen by the princess had cooled to a tepid "Kiss Me Quick...
...Tepid Street Cleaner. The current gloom began with Molloy, first of a trilogy of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) written in French and published in France between 1951 and 1953. In Molloy, published in the U.S. last year, the hero is a cripple who tries to cross a forest to get home to his mother and has some scabrous sexual encounters en route. Malone is headed for a more universal home, the grave. Indeed, all that can be said with certainty about the plot of Malone Dies is that Malone does...
...call myself an octogenarian," and he has the ageless "sickness unto death" of total despair. In his past life he has apparently been a street cleaner and may have been a murderer, but his only present concern is to be "neither hot nor cold any more, I shall be tepid, I shall die tepid...
Alias Sapo. In his tepid way, he tells himself little stories to while away the time. Or perhaps he writes them, since he keeps the stub of a pencil, sharpened at both ends, and a notebook in his room. One story concerns Mr. Saposcat (Sapo for short, and Homo sapiens, of course) and his wife, who worry about whether their teen-age son will pass some sort of exam. Another is about a farm family that happens to bury a mule. Even though Malone becomes Saposcat temporarily, these episodes dribble into nothingness in keeping with Beckett's conviction that...