Word: turgidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is more poetry, whose criticism I shall leave to more tolerant folk. As for the stories, they lead me almost to believe that the Advocate really is an institution independent of its contributors: they are disappointingly turgid. The best of them, surely, is Don Bloch's "Christian," which explores the emotions of a son waiting for the return of a father who has run away from home. Bloch has a fine sense of drama; it is a pity he so often lapses into wildly overwritten descants on cosmic forces, as if the family of his story were not already...
...Defense Department at once, but belatedly, got a new look and a firmer tone. Impatient of turgid oratory and military fumbling, all India turned with relief to the new Defense Minister, Y. B. Chavan. A big man in every sense of the word-including his burly 200 lbs.-Chavan
...columnist for Newsweek. A former TIME chief of correspondents, Hughes turned behind-scenes political strategist and speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower, shifted to Rockefeller in 1960. But in such work, he says, he missed the pleasure of speaking his own mind. He has already written America the Vincible, a turgid criticism of Eisenhower's foreign policy; now he is prepared to take another public swipe at his old boss with a new book, Eisenhower: A Political Memoir, to be published next spring. In an excerpt in the current issue of Look, Ike emerges as a testy and shallow...
...summer for the shooting of the Leopard are now bombarded by the glossy monthlies with awe-struck accounts of Visconti's baroque sense of light and composition or his deft flair for leading actors like Burt Lancaster into deep and exacting performances. On the evidence of Rocco and that turgid domestic squabble in Boccaccio 70, I wasn't convinced. White Nights, however, is a better test case: it contains all the elements hitherto claimed for Visconti's style and it shows us just how much he has to learn to match his legend...
Many of their books, turgid with description, tormented by tricks, are all but unreadable. Most demand far more persistence than any reader (except, possibly, a fellow writer studying technique) will ever-or should ever-give. The plunging power of one outstanding Neo-Realist, Claude Simon, dissipates too often in Faulknerian tangles-1000-word sentences and sets-within-sets of parenthetical statements. Inevitably, too, as experimenters, Neo-Realists have wallowed in pretentious critical nonsense. Their mechanical techniques, almost inevitably, have allowed a number of non-novelists to masquerade as writers of fiction. Neo-Realist Marguerite Duras' pure conversational tour...