Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome was giving another middle-aged American matron her opinion of the "disgraceful" way TIME had written about one of her favorite foreign politicians. "I think TIME ought to be barred," she said. "I wouldn't know about that," her friend replied. "I just don't bother to read TIME." "Well," said the first lady, "if you read it every week like...
...campaign of South Hendon's Tories will be as conservative as their candidate. There will be only 19 meetings, and Lucas-Tooth will not bother to attend all of them. There will be no street-corner meetings ("Not here, y'know," Cockshut shudders), and there will be no loudspeaker cars, except on the actual day of the election ("Don't approve of that sort of thing," says Cockshut aggressively). "Our only slogan," added Dr. Cockshut, "is 'Lucas-Tooth.' That will appear on 15,000 stickers...
...average U.S. reader will not bother to wait; he was bored or scared away from most modern poetry long ago. Nonetheless, there is more than a chance that some people who try Paterson for the first time will like it. Despite a humorlessness and awkwardness that make Williams the Dreiser of U.S. poets, the Williams eye sees with clinical honesty. And among poets too often barricaded behind private mutterings or elaborate mythical references, Rutherford's Dr. Williams keeps poking around outdoors. His notion...
...State Department apologia for its own miserable failure in China: nothing the U.S. could have done, he said once more, could have changed things one iota. "What has happened in my judgment is that the almost inexhaustible patience of the Chinese people in their misery ended. They did not bother to overthrow this [Nationalist] government. There was really nothing to overthrow. They simply ignored it throughout the country . . . The Communists did not create ... a great force which moved out from under Chiang Kaishek. But they were shrewd and cunning to mount it, to ride this thing into victory and power...
Wallis' life turns out to have been not so much a web of calculated evil as of thoughtlessness and stupidity. He was always at odds with his conventional father, almost from the first had too much money. In purgatory, what seems to bother him most is his haphazard sex life and the scars it left on him and on his women. One by one they are brought before him and Wallis realizes that through his earthly life he was incapable of real love, behaved badly with wife and mistresses alike...