Word: turgidity
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...Oxford, Miss. Eagle published a public notice in turgid prose. Text: "The posted woods on my property inside the city limits of Oxford contain several tame squirrels. Any hunter who feels himself too lacking in woodcraft and marksmanship to approach a dangerous wild squirrel, might feel safe with these. These woods are a part of the pasture used by my horses and milk cow; also, the late arrival will find them already full of other hunters. He is kindly requested not to shoot either of these." The advertiser: Oxford's own, only Nobel Prizewinning Author William Faulkner...
...received, and reacts with the fury of an upstaged diva to a photograph he considers ill-chosen. In effect, what Mailer has produced is a record of an artistic crackup. By the early 1950s the spare, controlled prose of The Naked and the Dead had turned sour and turgid, and its author was drifting in a haze of liquor, seconal and marijuana. Mailer has stopped using "the minor drugs," he says (although he believes that after a few more years of suppression marijuana will be as widely used as was bootleg gin in the '203), but his book gives...
...novel, and there is more than a hint from both author and publisher that the book will explain the Oppenheimer mystery. Because the Oppenheimer case, perhaps second only to the Hiss case, holds lingering drama and significance for Americans, even a fictional deposition is of major interest. But this turgid novel gives no answers; at best it offers further substance for speculation, as well as an insight into the bitter family feuds, the cliches-become-faith and the unrequited political passions of the Left...
...literary garlands, e. e. cummings wanders through selections from his Him and Santa Claus (Caedmon) with the air of a sleepwalker groping in a murky crypt; John Masefield sibilates waveringly through his The Story of Ossian (Argo) in a reading that does nothing to relieve the poem's turgid dramatic flow. The opposite failing-a tendency to rhetoric where mere passion would do-mars Sir Ralph Richardson's swooning reading of The Poetry of Keats (Caedmon), and turns Carl Sandburg's A Lincoln Album (Caedmon) into an uneasy collection of pieties at odds with the vigor...
Wiechert uses modern characters to illustrate his old allegory and presses home his message with intense sincerity. His weakness is a mystified view of history that exaggerates both the stability of the past and the uniqueness of the present. His prose is filled with sentimental, turgid solemnity. But the book will please those who like their religious literature to be a little lower than the angels and a little higher than Lloyd Douglas...