Word: biliously
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...afternoon wears on, the clan bitches it up, a diatribe here, a confessional secret there, a bilious distillation from atrabilious people. Andrea hates Annie because Daddy loved her more. Five marriages have not appeased her sense of loss. Out of vengeance or whim she has carried on an affair with Annie's fiance. Callously neglected by her late husband, Ruth fervently argues that loyalty and fidelity are above price. Only Aunt Helen has shared untarnished love in a lesbian idyl with an aviatrix now long dead. It is an odd angle of vision that per mits Playwright Babe...
...sadness in this. A President ought to be able to remove himself from public contact for two weeks, particularly to get away from Washington, which is just terrible in August and September. ("I consider it as a trying experiment for a person from the mountains to pass the two bilious months on the tide-water," wrote a new President, Thomas Jefferson, in 1801. "I have not done it these 40 years, and nothing should induce me to do it.") But today's politicians who want to sneak off now and then for some solitude also want the public...
...rebellious left wing are sure to keep the hated Margaret Thatcher from coming to power. Help may also come from Liberal Leader Steel. Ultimately, however, Callaghan's survival could depend on Ulster M.P. Enoch Powell, the eccentric, disruptive genius of British politics. A former Tory and a bilious critic of Thatcher's, Powell just might rally key Unionist yeas behind Callaghan. In any case, the vote will be dicey. As Callaghan admitted last week, "This is the moment of truth...
...bilious tract written in 1604 by King James I of Great Britain has made that widely unadmired monarch a belated hero to certain Americans in 1976. The royal broadside, A Counterblaste to Tobacco, was a lengthy denunciation of smoking, culminating in the sentence...
...into my lap every time I shook the academic tree. It is an attitude I heartily commend to all incoming freshmen for, as a sage old British friend once told me, "The only place one is likely to find the Philosopher's Stone is in the gallbladder of a bilious pedant." What I sought during my stay at Harvard was not Veritas (how many of us would recognize that rare commodity even if we did come face to face with it?), but an opportunity to learn a little, teach a little, reflect a little and read, write and converse...