Word: antagonists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, for holding that the J.B. boosters tend to think of the Saturday Review as the house organ of higher culture in America. For it was from there, a year ago last May, that the first salvo of literary enthusiasm was discharged, by the noted American poet and fearless antagonist of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, John Ciardi. "Archibald MacLeish's J.B. is great poetry, great drama, and--as far as my limitations permit me to sense it--great stagecraft," he proclaimed in the opening sentence of his article, "The Birth of a Classic." A prefatory note explained that SR's poetry...
Enjoyed your comments on my old bridge-table antagonist [Oct. 19], Iain Macleod, Britain's new Colonial Secretary. For many years Mr. Macleod was a member of England's No. 1 bridge team, helping it garner worldwide prestige in international matches, and he still ranks amongst the world's top 20 or so bridge players. His always quiet, unassuming demeanor beclouds the brilliance of his intellect...
Across the land, Americans sensed the venturesomeness and the drama in Ike's meetings, first with his allies and then with his antagonist. And they knew that the importance of the meetings lay precisely in the fact that they were initiated...
...best, and the worst, that can be said of the tempestuous friar is that he loved God so passionately that he had very little love left for man. Biographer Ridolfi-a Florentine descended from both Lorenzo de' Medici, an early antagonist of the Dominican, and Giovambat-tista Ridolfi, one of the priest's loyal supporters-is clearly an admirer of Savonarola. He feuds pompously with previous biographers, argues expertly and with almost contemporary urgency in defense of the contentious martyr. The reader may reflect that the excesses of body and spirit against which Savonarola thundered were the underside...
...about China were undoubtedly strong, they were couched in his own curious brand of spongy language ("An attempt to explain the situation by the use of rather worn-out words, phrases and slogans is seldom helpful"). If he hoped thereby that Peking would as softly reply, he misjudged his antagonist. Peking began a hue and cry about how "intolerable" Nehru's remarks were, and set in motion the whole dreary ritual of thousands of agitation meetings to condemn Nehru...