Word: animus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that there are wrong kinds," Sykes says mournfully. Waugh identified himself wholeheartedly with an old order he saw passing away--not only before his very eyes, but before he had been allowed to enjoy it. His bitterness knew no limits, and dominated his personal relationships and gave the underlying animus to his writing. In books, as a rule, he caught the dying glow of the upper classes in the softening mirror of decent, fair-minded characters. Brideshead Revisited, his greatest novel, is elegiac, but not vindictive. Outside of fiction, though, Waugh was quick to place the blame where he thought...
...hardly a fan of Thompson's. The candidate was careful to point out as he made his announcement that he saw no reason for the mayor to conduct "a vendetta against me," adding that as a prosecutor he had never uttered "a single word of personal animus" against Daley...
...normally carry 20% of the national vote, will almost certainly say no to the treaties. But other segments of the anti-Gaullist opposition will be in a bind. Because they are already on record as favoring Common Market expansion, centrists and socialists may have to swallow their anti-Pompidou animus and vote...
...primarily by virtue of their brutality but by virtue of their worldly success: they are self-made men. We still want to read about men with the will, the energy, the daring, the boldness and the ruthlessness to claw their way to the top. But so powerful has the animus against business and commerce become in our culture that no legitimate businessman could possibly serve as the hero of any such story. Only an illegitimate businessman could; which is to say a gangster...
...deep animus toward "athletic bastards who stick together," see Bouton, Meggyesy, et al. And as for my hatred of those teachers who overinstruct but undernourish, yelling "digression!" in Oral Expression every time a student gets interesting, the romantic critiques of Kozol and Herndon have left me winded...