Word: mindlessness
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...Barry was the proudest and least able of the three. "The principal merit of painting," he once wrote, "is its address to the mind." Because he continually asserted his conviction that most other British painters were mindless, they expelled him from the Royal Academy. They also took great satisfaction in sneering at his half-mystical allegories and his absurd Death of General Wolfe (in which all the figures were shown classically nude...
...poems seem spotty. All too often his narrative poems, dealing with such subjects as a tailor's affair with a vampire and a Roman emperor's gloating over the dissection of an Eastern princess, seem more ridiculous than horrible. And his reflective poems frequently sink into a mindless musical torpor, in which occasional brilliant passages are overwhelmed by loose, undisciplined globs of language...
...Lillian Hellman's study of the five Little Foxes and how they grew; the Hubbard family is seen in 1880, 20 years before The Little Foxes. They are a horrifying image of the newborn New South: a self-made, egomaniacal father (Fredric March); a deeply pious, almost mindless mother (March's wife Florence Eldridge); a mild-seeming, Machiavellian son (Edmond O'Brien); a whining, fatuous son (Dan Duryea); a diamond-hard daughter (Ann Blyth). Night & day they connive against each other; during any chance breathing spell they work on their neighbors...
...evil, but his character was like the kind of car that will not hold to the road. . . . There are some who are always 15. John Amery continued ... to like automobiles ... as an adolescent does, and had as fresh and bounding an appreciation of the firm, bril liant flesh of mindless womanhood." "This Was Suicide." He had committed, she saw, "the classic type of treachery which every educated person knows at once for the base and final act it is, for Sir Roger Casement committed it in the last war." Like a "poor young idiot" he joined the Nazis' fight...
...Poor is the answer to that question. Like The Asiatics its only plot is a record of travel, but this time the traveler is a 17-year-old boy bumming his way south from Wisconsin to his home in Texas. Tom starts out with his friend Pete, a mindless blond giant with curly hair on his chest who almost immediately mag netizes a colored farm girl, troubles Tom's flesh by getting as far as taking down her dress before he remembers to send Tom away. This scene, equal parts Steinbeck and Pierre Louys, is followed by a touch...