Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BIGGEST TAX BITE in world is in West Germany, where taxes take 34% of gross national product, v. 29% in Great Britain, 26% in U.S. But a new British study shows top-bracket earners in Germany keep 47% of earnings, v. only...
This is the second lot of tax, you know, On money that I earned two years ago (The shark, they say, by no means Nature's knight, Will rest contented with a single bite: The barracuda, who's a fish more fell, Comes back and takes the other leg as well...
...Freud explained that little Hans had strong Oedipal feelings toward his mother; therefore he had hostility to ward his father and therefore anxiety. He repressed the anxiety and converted it into hippophobia ? he was afraid to go out be cause he was afraid of being castrated by the bite of a horse. To Freud the horse represented little Hans's father. This elaborate hypothesis neatly fitted Freud's preoccupation with castration fears, which Psychoanalyst Rollo May now interprets as the fear of losing mother's love and, hence, selfesteem...
...explanation: "'But Cas, darling,' she purred, appraising her luxuriant body in the curved mirror she had installed to surround her bed, 'I thought you knew. I mean, I wouldn't sleep with... with...a m-a-n.' She oozed the word through tightly clenched teeth, as if to bite the life out of it." Needless to say, Aelia seduces the professor's wife and Cas seduces the professor, and before long Cas has tenure...
...when in 1932 he finally settled down in the U.S. at the age of 39, his violent, anguished art turned tranquil. Grosz was so entranced by his adopted country that everything he drew or painted-landscapes, cityscapes, nudes-was happy and uncritical. He later recovered some of his bite, but his early German work remains the most arresting. Last week Chicago's Richard Feigen Gallery opened a memorial exhibit of early Grosz paintings and drawings, some never shown before...