Word: literatus
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Julius Caesar, a literatus of distinction, wrote the history of his empire-building campaigns himself. President Lyndon Johnson, who prefers to use house writers, set the vast mechanism of the Federal Government to work chronicling his days in power. In a flurry of memoranda, agency aediles were told recently to put their top men to the task of recording the accomplishments Annorum Presidentis 1963-68. They were also instructed to send drafts to the White House for evaluation. When completed, presumably before January 20, the epic will be shipped to Austin, where posterity will be able to consult the instant...
British critics have just discovered "a major dramatist" who turns out to be that old literatus of the libido, David Herbert Lawrence...
...habit." He wrote Democratic Vistas, a book of prose more perceptive of the weak spots in U.S. democracy than anything Whitman had written before. He had outlived his pre-Civil War hopefulness, but he was still capable only of vague "orbic" statements about the leadership of "the divine literatus," and preached once again "his old back-to-nature illusion." He still professed his uncritical confidence in the deep instinctive virtues of "the People." Author Fausset believes that this confidence is part of Whitman's pathetic fallacy...
...author of Prejudices, Notes on Democracy, In Defense of Women, The American Language, etc., is aware that he has entered what he calls his "autumnal-years." He is not the riproaring Mencken of the 1920s, when his name was on the lips of every undergraduate literatus, when newspapermen were supposed to carry copies of the Mercury in their hip pockets along with their liquor flasks, and when he himself was scorching Fundamentalists at the Scopes trial, sitting up all night with characters like Rudolph Valentino, and lalloping around Manhattan with Ernest Boyd and Jim Huneker...
Cuthbert J. Twillie is first-rate W. C. Fields' clowning, which is proof enough that one of the coolest heads in show business surmounts Cinemactress West's opulent curves. For Mae, who fancies herself no end as a literatus and has always jealously insisted on authoring her own scripts, this time took a tip from Producer Cowan. She let Funnyman Fields write in his own part, ad lib to his heart's content. Best ad lib was carefully excised from the picture. Murmured Fields one day to the goat which he mistakes for Flower Belle: "Darling, have...