Word: turgid
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Novelist Yerby has done some catapulting himself. Beginning with The Foxes of Harrow, and repeating the performance with five successive novels, Yerby has mounted a vast, turgid body of prose on his publisher's publicity engines. Each time it has made a bull's-eye on the bestseller lists...
...Buenos Aires' regional Olympics, Miller is likely to discuss much more with Juan Perón than track & field events. If he wants to, Miller could certainly tell Perón that U.S.Argentine relations have sagged lately, and that they are not likely to be improved by turgid Perón speeches proclaiming that not only Communism but capitalism must go. The general might also be told that the U.S. public and press do not cotton to the gagging of La Prensa or the bilious, Kremlin-style attacks on U.S. business by Evita Perón's newspaper...
Jungle to Swampland. Such careful preparations are not enough to keep the River flowing smoothly. Though it also is a Book-of-the-Month choice (for January), the story soon turns as turgid as the widest reaches of the Amazon itself: the expedition breaks down, fever rages, the natives want to quit. Scientist Barna is found, but he wants merely to live in peace with the natives so that he may expiate an old sin. Even the cast of characters seems to have escaped from the rolls of an old jungle thriller: a gigantic U.S. Negro, wanted for murder...
...tubby, New Jersey-born Cape Codder who looks like a cross between a cantankerous professor and an absent-minded Roman emperor. At 55, with more than a quarter-century of serious writing behind him, he is best known to U.S. readers for Memoirs of Hecate County, a book of turgid intellectual short stories laced with enough sex to get them widely banned. Somerset Maugham, a more successful storywriter, whom Wilson calls a "half-trashy novelist . . . patronized by half-serious readers," considers Hecate County "so execrably bad you wonder whether it's worth reading what he has to say about...
...page report to the President from his Council of Economic Advisers, signed by Keyserling as acting chairman, and by John D. Clark, the council's only other member since the resignation of conscientious, scholarly Dr. Edwin G. Nourse (TIME, Oct. 31). Translated from Keyserling's turgid prose and technical jargon, this is what it said the Truman Administration now believes...