Word: turgidness
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...editorial page of the Harvard Lampoon, set in small type beneath a masthead of multi-initialled cognomina, is the turgid legend: "No matter in this magazine may be printed without permission of publishers." Under this code, reproduction of the following is positively prohibited...
...accustomed lines-and with unhappy results. Two pages of Henry Miller's exhibitionist prose, a dozen lines of Kenneth Patchen's apocalyptic "self-expression" verse are all a reader needs to know forever the school of professional literary bohemianism. The shrill, barren exercises in surrealist freewheeling, the turgid moralizing of those poets who have retired to philosophical hermitages, and the vulgarity of the psychoanarchists-all these are dead letters...
...International) comes about as close as the Johnston Office will permit in letting Merle Oberon get away with murder. Adapted from a musty Robert Hichens novel called Bella Donna (forerunner of the stories with spiced-up Mediterranean settings that used to run in Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine), the turgid old yarn has been tried three times before in the movies. The verdict, in spite of its fine feathers, stylish production and highfalutin misbehavior, is guilty-too sluggish...
...into marriage with a rich old man (Gene Lockhart). Then she lures her husband's son (Louis Hayward) into patricide. Finally she is ready to steal a better looking man (George Sanders), who belongs to her best girl friend (Hillary Brooke). From the very beginning of these turgid, dragged-out, unconvincing carryings-on, it is plain that Miss Lamarr and her honeycomb lips will eventually wind up in Proverbial death and an Old Testament hell...
...editorial page of the Harvard Lampoon, set in small type beneath a masthead of multi-initialled cognomina, is the turgid legend: "No matter in this magazine to be reprinted without permission of publishers." Under this code, reproduction of the following is positively prohibited...