Word: torpids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dallas, one blistering afternoon last week, a wilted and red-faced businessman walked into Little Brother Runnells' outdoor watermelon garden and sank down on a chair. He ordered a slice of cold watermelon and stared at it with a kind of torpid cunning. He made it last a long time. He built a juicy suspension bridge by excavating delicately at the center of the slice, then wrecked it slowly, sadly, and with infinite care. He counted the black seeds on his plate before he dragged himself back to the unthinkable horrors of his desk, his telephone and his electric...
...collection of Bloy's writings (Pilgrim of the Absolute, Pantheon, $3.50), edited by Raïssa Maritain, with an introduction by her husband, now France's Ambassador to the Vatican. The loving and loathing in these fragments might well prove a shock treatment for some torpid Christians. Excerpts...
...plan which aroused the most interest and provoked the hottest attack were the proposals of Minnesota's Senator Joseph Hurst Ball. One reason why Congress faced a long-drawn battle, to which the hearings were only a torpid preliminary, was because Joe Ball was launched on a crusade...
...wrong," he once told a friend who mentioned his endless babbling, "I hear myself going on and on and on and I can't stop." He longed to have children, and his vain attempts to love and marry preyed terribly on his mind. To stir his "torpid passions," he picked artificial "lovers' quarrels" with the women he most admired...
...native villages in Africa. People are fever-stricken, enervated and blinded by headaches. And after the first unexpected actions that start them on the way to tragedy, Miss Smith's characters move less like Struggling human beings than like prisoners on whom literary sentence has been passed, torpid, dazed, well-nigh speechless, and locked in the confines of her narrow plot like Georgia chain-gang prisoners...