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Word: hedonistic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...when it is not trying to be like Norman Douglas' South Wind. It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell and the plump Bloomsbury hedonist, C.E.M. Joad. All that fidgety Satirist Menen succeeds in doing in his jape is to remind the reader what neat debaters those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Freedom from Thought | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

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