Word: annoyance
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Charles Hart's failure is due principally to his didactic attitude. He tries to act the experienced expositor of strange worlds to an ignorant audience, but his attempts to shock by strong language and unusual situation merely confuse his story and annoy his listeners. Nor are the plot and characters so novel. The salvation of the fallen woman, Carol, after her final rejection of environment, friends, and lover has been told before; the twist of using the reactivated love of her crude paramour Morey instead of that of a new Prince Charming is the only originality. Hart's background characters...
...suit for $3,750 monthly separate maintenance and child support, and Heifetz' counter-offer of $1,213. Heifetz fiddled while Mrs. Heifetz burned; then, after three days of residence, she departed, without so much as a "Happy New Year." Said the violinist: "It was a deliberate attempt to annoy...
Anticlimax. The Dutch rulers of Western New Guinea have discouraged headhunting, so the elaborate buildup generally ends at this point. The ancestor poles are taken out into the sago forest and left to rot. Perhaps the souls of dead ancestors go away with them and cease to annoy the living; perhaps their decay helps the procreation of the sago trees. The Asmat are well aware that all this is an anticlimax, but when the Dutch leave New Guinea, as they soon must, the ceremonial may culminate as of old in a real head-hunting raid on a neighboring tribe...
...under political attack, the Israelis insisted that if El Al had to fly Soblen out of Britain it would take him to Israel, not to the U.S. Britain rejected the back-to-israel solution: the U.S. was pressing for Soblen's return and Britain did not want to annoy its No. 1 ally by letting Soblen get away. Again and again, the British laid down a deadline for El Al to fly Soblen to New York, only to extend the deadline when El Al refused to comply...
...able to win the votes for a temporary administrator. Secretary Rusk came out in the open and said that this is what the U.S. wants-not without earning a rebuke from unnamed delegates, quoted in the New York Times, who seemed terrified that such relatively blunt language would annoy that new deity of the U.N., The Nonaligned...