Word: woomanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is plenty of simple labeling ("Lowbrowmanship," "Woomanship," "Daily Mirrorship") but we get the real Potter charm in such characters as Hope-Tipping of Buttermere who "first made a name for himself in 1930 by saying that 'the one thing that was lacking, of course, from D. H. Lawrence's novels, was the consciousness of sexual relationship, the male and female element in life.'" Hope-tipping may be a formula man, and the humor which made him may be limited, but he has the resi spark of original humor. So does "Lifemanship...
Passions of Slobberlips McJab. Capp also sees to it that his readers are fed liberal quantities of sex, Dogpatch style-a style which incorporates the absurder aspects of mayhem and dementia. On occasion the woomanship of Appassionata Van Climax, the Wolf Gal, Adam Lazonga and Slobberlips McJab has resembled the more vehement techniques of Lizzie Borden and Strangler Lewis...
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