Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, by a young man of 26, William Saroyan. The book was a mixture of love and pity and humor: pity and humor for everyone, especially bums and prostitutes, and love for life, no matter how preposterous. If it was writing that perhaps lacked bite, at least it did not gnash its teeth; if the prose was not exactly muscular, it had plenty of heart, and the heart, as everyone knows, is an involuntary muscle which cannot (and need not) be flexed...
Brecht is exciting because he found his own voice and knew how to use it. He loved reality more than realism. He could define the ecstasies and agonies of love, work, exile, hope, life and death in images of savage bite and lyrical beauty. Among the vivid images in Brecht on Brecht: Anne Jackson miming the simple glories of the world for her unborn son; Dane Clark doing an amusing Method depth-probe of which hat to wear for a four-minute part: Lotte Lenya conjuring up the ghostly, ghastly Berlin...
...against the Cuba venture all along. Kennedy decided to get Bowles out. He invited Bowles down for a swim in the White House pool. Then the two had lunch while Kennedy explained that he had a new job, outside Washington, in mind for Bowles. Bowles not only refused to bite at Kennedy's bait, but went out and stirred up protests among his cultist liberal following. In the face of a fuss, Jack Kennedy backed away - but anyone
...spider is venomous, with a bite that opens an ulcerous wound in the victim's skin. The injury is localized but usually slow to heal. As yet, no humans have been reported bitten by the species which avoids contact and attacks only when touched or trapped...
...spiders are seldom seen in the public parts of the museum, and the zoologists and students who work in the laboratories are almost pleased to have them around. No one yet has been bitten; laetas are shy and rarely attack man. But a bite is sharp and painful, and the slow-acting poison can be dangerous. For at least 24 hours the victim shows no symptoms; then a swelling appears and the site of the bite turns into a large, purplish pimple that heals slowly. In a few cases there is hemolysis (destruction of red blood cells), which...