Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wyoming started it all, back in 1939. By last week, with Idaho and Tennessee lately joining the parade, 32 state legislatures had followed Wyoming in an extraordinary appeal: Congress should set about amending the Constitution to limit the federal income-tax bite. Many of the "memorials" propose a specific federal ceiling: 25% of an individual's taxable income. Existing constitutional ceiling: none. Maximum under present...
Sculptor Chaim Gross's father was a lumber merchant, and Chaim began his career, appropriately enough, as a sculptor of wood. Among the first sights Sculptor Gross saw in his native Carpathian Mountains were towering forests of firs and pines; among the first sounds he heard were the bite of ax in tree and the screech of sawmills slicing logs into boards. "Smelling the odor of a pine or some other tree," he says today, "I feel like pressing close to its fragrance...
...course of making clear that Louise Baxter prefers seduction, or thinks she does, Novelist Roswell G. Ham Jr. makes clear a lot of other things. In Britain, by long tradition the novelist cuts his teeth on the old school in order to bite the hand that birched him, but the school novel is a comparative rarity in U.S. letters. A British boyhood is a Spartan affair which leads the long-suffering young to literary self-defense against their elders; while in the U.S. the young are coddled and it is the elders who must display Spartan fortitude...
...point or another, Orpheus Descending achieves everything that Tennessee Williams does well and even does uniquely: whiplashing recrimination, harshly funny humor, the corrosive bite of evil, the shaking fingers of fright. Actress Maureen Stapleton has some extraordinary moments as the wife, Cliff Robertson some quietly effective ones as the guitar player. But, taken as a whole, the play fails, and for three reasons: a faultiness of structure, an obsessiveness of attitude, an empurpling theatricalism...
...grain fields, damage mowing and harvesting machines. They get into fodder and sting the cattle that try to eat it or the humans that handle it. In places where they are thick, farmers cannot get laborers to work in the fields. In suburbs they pock lawns with their mounds, bite children playing on the grass...