Word: utters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harm created. The Notes are an anonymous, collaborative effort, laboriously checked for inaccuracy by many individuals, including (it is my understanding) members of the faculty. That a Note could be used as a vehicle for the promotion of a political philosophy repugnant to other members of the group, is utter nonsense. It must be obvious that the technique employed accounts, for example, for misinterpretation of an explosive Constitutional issue dealing with Negroes when that issue is handled by a Southern member of the Review. To state categorically that the eligible concerned is too suspect to run the risk of realization...
...Romance is for bobbysoxers," she declares, and wards off the amatory Holden by telling him "You're not passionate, you're just hungry." A moment later, she announces kissing to be fun and proceeds to enjoy it. And yet, whether her sophistication is educated naivete, or her childlike candor utter sophistication (one is never quite sure which), she is so fresh, pure and enchanting as to completely disarm Holden, Niven and her audience. Niven, the rake redeemed, tells her that every playboy has an innate respect for innocence. Miss McNamara is acutely conscious of the irony and humor of this...
...other things to offer besides literary mud. There are some sharply evocative sketches of French aristocrats in the old-fashioned countryside, and of French Protestants in a prim, latter-day Huguenot Parisian flat. And there is the strange children's world in which cruelty is mixed with utter innocence. The novel won the 1950 Prix Goncourt and sold 100,000 copies in France. But then, French tastes have always been rather special...
...Roman Catholic, and while I do not agree with the teachings of the Church of England, I do greatly resent your publishing this type of utter nonsense...
Noyes's autobiography shows that his life has traveled on the same orthodox feet as his poetry. Of his parents, he says firmly: "I have nothing sadistic to report." Of his childhood: "Nor can I utter a single agonized cry of self-pity." As an Oxford undergraduate he joined "a little group . . . who were keenly interested in literature," but "rowing became the most important thing in life." He records only two rebellious outbursts: a spell of agnos-ticism at the age of 15, and playing hooky from Oxford exams in order to write his first volume of poems...