Word: bursting
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Prime Minister Menachem Begin sat glumly in his chair, but members of the Labor opposition burst into jubilant shouts as the speaker read the final tally. In a secret ballot, the Israeli Knesset had elected the Labor Party candidate, Chaim Herzog, 64, a former Ambassador to the United Nations, to serve as President for the next five years. He defeated a politically obscure candidate put up by the Likud, Supreme Court Justice Menachem Elon, 59, by a vote...
Everything about Godfrey seemed to capture the public's imagination. When he fired his prize discovery, Singer Julius LaRosa, on live network TV in 1953, purportedly for "lack of humility," the incident made front pages across the country. So did another burst of temper the next year, when Godfrey, an avid pilot, grew angry with the flight instructions he had been given for his DC-3 and buzzed an airport control tower in Teterboro...
That happy circumstance has befallen Slab Boys, a burst of bitter memory from Scottish Playwright John Byrne about the hopeless nights and dreamless days of young men who grind dyes in the "slab room" of a carpet factory near Glasgow. When first produced in New York, off-Broadway in 1980, the play seemed a programmatic denunciation of the social order, as personified by two pompous functionaries and by a blazered young prig who was passing through the slab room on his foreordained...
Sigmund Freud stars in a segment that seems adapted for Masterpiece Theater. Brownshirted Nazis burst into the Vienna apartment of the founder of psychoanalysis, growling about "rich dirty Jews." They are cowed by Frau Freud's response: "We're middle-class clean Jews. That is why I ask you to wipe your feet." The master's cures are just as brisk and effective, the ideal length for docudrama. "You don't want to die," Freud assures a patient, "you want to get back into your mother." From the couch comes the reply, "You're sure...
This is not an attractive prospect, perhaps not even for the Russians. Should they arrive, book lovers among them might experience a sense of déjà vu. From Mexico to the islands of southern Chile and Argentina, there is a burst of literary energy reminiscent of the age of Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Great differences exist between the writers of 19th century Russia and 20th century Latin America, but so do profound similarities. Both groups have had to face provincialism, political suppression and foreign influences that threatened to drown out their native voices...