Word: tufting
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...left by her depilatory"). Undigested lumps of Marx and Freud swallowed in youth appear to catalyze these prosy nightmares. Sex, particularly, is constantly talked of, snickered at and attempted-and, of course, it is always unpleasant and unsuccessful. Fiedler's specialty is the small, perfect detail, like the tuft of thick, sweaty hair the narrator spies curling from the heroine's decolletage. Jewish loathing of Jewishness is. of course, a standard nasty story theme, and Fiedler's Jews - malicious caricatures be side whom Fagin would resemble King David - treat their religion as if it were a particularly...
...ambiguity of Tuft's position is that while in all of its advertising and publicity it represents itself as a professional company, it is not. It is staffed almost entirely by college students, many of whom are taking summer drama courses. Yet it tries to produce a professional slate on a professional rehearsal schedule. It is not, unfortunately, quite that good...
...Snobs & Tuft-Hunters. In America's future there was a Mark Twain, whose frontier lay almost a thousand miles to the west of Cooper's, and whose literary sights were set a great deal more truly than Natty Bumppo's. It was Mark Twain who pointed the double irony-that Cooper, who wrote badly of the society he knew, knew nothing of what he wrote best about-savages. When Cooper hit Paris in 1826, he was able to report complacently to his publisher: "'Mohicans is looking up famously in Europe." The resident intellectuals, including Jean Jacques...
...lacked either a British or American sense of humor. In the end, he came to feel guilty when he found that the creator of Leatherstocking had a reputation back home of "trying night and day to live with dukes and duchesses." He and his family were not really "tuft-hunters," he protested, adding that he had no desire to marry his four daughters to Europeans...
...Tuft's only victory in its first four games was over Clark. The Jumbos bowed to Boston College Tuesday night by a 78-65 score...