Word: wallowings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contemporary life is even further pointed up by the fact that the other writers in this book deliberately turn their backs on it. André Gide and Noel Devaulx hide their talented heads in reminiscences of life before World War I. Nature-Boys Jean Giono and André Chamson wallow in a woody dreamland of hefty peasants and prime wine. Only Jean Cassou gives an impression of both vitality and veracity. His macabre story is an up-to-date version of Romeo & Juliet, in which Juliet ("a nice, retiring person . . . the sort who hates being conspicuous") is put to shame...
Hung on the framework of a real case which could not be more exciting, the picture presents a wealth of argument towards "One World." Yet this is not the painfully obvious propaganda that Hollywood is so prone to wallow in. The moral is not forced down our throats, but contained naturally in a factual document, and thereby carries all the more weight. As a matter of fact, the film had its premiere before the UN at Lake Success. Movies like this are what make the condition of the American moving picture industry seem not so hopeless after all. E.P.R...
Publisher Elzey Roberts decided that they were-though some other parties were also guilty. In an editorial he said: "It is time that society as a whole faced the fact that through its negligence and apathy this postwar period has become a hog-wallow of eroticism." He felt that the mud in this wallow was contributed by some movies, fashion designers, plays, radio programs, books, perfume ads and "unwholesome comic strips with provocative poses." He left it to his readers to tell him what should be done...
...like the many upperclassmen now in the University, he will regret having taken, or not having taken, certain courses during his Freshman year. He will wish that somebody had told him that all University regulations are flexible, and that there had been no need for him to wallow exclusively in Freshman courses for a year. He will feel that intelligent guidance might have helped him to find a niche in the extracurricular work much earlier than did his own trial and error probings...
...Victorian Age, Red Plush is one of those placid novels that wallow in family trivia, delight in minor, certain-to-be-resolved family crises and snicker at family eccentrics. The family is accorded an existence of its own, dominating and dwarfing the individual characters; it becomes a sort of metaphysical entity, unexplored and uncriticized, that remains firm and true, regardless of the peccadilloes of its members. The reader is therefore seldom aroused about the fate of any individual Moorhouse. For even if erratic David were to choose the wrong bride (though he does not) or if moody Phoebe were...