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...simpering clerks, the passionate but suppressed girls whom Turgenev paints are universal types, recognizable in any environment. And some of his best stories have nothing to do with serfdom: The Singers, a rousing account of a singing duel between a peasant and a tradesman which ends in a drunken debauch, and Bezhin Meadow, a tender portrait of a group of boys whom the sportsman meets one evening...
...danger and brought a fortune in furs out of virgin streams. For most of them, the yearly rendezvous, a "combined festival and fair" in the wilderness, was their only contact with civilization. There they sold their furs, bought their supplies and spent their hard-earned profits in "roaring, riotous debauch, devoted in about equal measure to lethal whisky, reckless gambling . . .and an orgy of sexual abandon with the complacent Indian girls and squaws." The sun-blackened trappers modeled them selves after their No. 1 foe, the Indian...
...caustic Santayana, Charles Townsend Copeland was a mere "elocutionist" who provided a "spiritual debauch [for] many well-disposed waifs at Harvard." Copey's well-disposed waifs felt otherwise. A shrunken little man, with an actor's sense of staging, he brought literature to life for thousands of students. When the announcement went up for one of his readings, students would line the streets outside his hall. Then Copey would enter, order the doors to be locked, spend minutes adjusting his lamp, listen disdainfully for the audience to swallow its coughs, and finally begin. Over the years, those readings...
...Music, drama and the other arts . . . have been invaded by sensationalism. Human friendship and love between men & women have been perverted . . . into mere physical excitement. Are we . . . headed for a debauch of excitement which will result in the sickness of disillusionment and the headache of regret...
Chicago-born Scotford went to Dartmouth and Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, then put in 15 years' work in four pastorates. After half a year spent roaming South America on "a literary debauch," he traveled far & wide in the U.S. lecturing on his trip, then settled down to twelve years of directing his Church's home missions publicity...