Word: turgidness
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CAPABLE OF HONOR, by Allen Dairy. The author's fictional sense occasionally goes awry and his style turns turgid. But his reportorial eye is sharp in this big and topical book about domestic and international chicanery, which carries forward the cast of characters first exhibited in Advise and Consent...
...soap opera of flapping metaphors and dangling syntax that asks: Can an "upstanding, up-and-coming, go-getting, moneymaking, sports-minded, about-town-business-and-Yale man" chuck his $50,000-a-year job and find happiness as a minister? The gospel according to St. Johns is a turgid yes, provided that he preaches a theology based on the teachings of Rebecca West, Billy Graham, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, J. D. Salinger, Jakob Bohme and Damon Runyon. Tell No Man is No. 5 on the bestseller list...
...book, completed in 1959, is the first detailed biography of Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Prince-Bishop (from 1830 to 1851) of Djilas' native Montenegro, and Serbia's greatest poet. Njegoš is severely out of phase with Djilas' usually remarkable work, however. It is turgid in style and parochial in scope. Even in the U.S., where there are more Serbs than in all Ljubljana, Njegoš is not likely to find much more of an appreciative audience...
...subtle merits and elusive memo ries of Francis Xavier Morrissey, 55, were scrutinized for nine hours by Senate Judiciary Committee members, who then approved President Johnson's nominee for the $30,000-a-year lifetime judgeship (TIME, Oct. 8). There were, of course, turgid testimonials arranged by Morrissey's backers. Anticipating opposition in Senate subcommittee hearings, they put on ten witnesses and adduced an encomium from Richard Cardinal Gushing, who in 1956 christened Morrissey's tenth baby, Richard Gushing, in the first such ceremony ever televised...
Most readers remain unconvinced. Floundering through turgid translations, they begin to wonder uneasily: is Dante really great-or even interesting...