Word: chafe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agnew harbors sufficient independence to chafe sometimes at being programmed. "We have a stud here, a real stud," says an aide. "He has some thoughts of his own." Now he is being reined in, and he cannot like the feeling. For the short run, Agnew's future will turn upon the success of the new persona he is cultivating under Nixon's direction. The White House is now sending him forth in a more statesmanlike guise as ambassador-advocate for the Administration's domestic reforms. Thus last Agnew met-and was photographed with-Newark Mayor Kenneth...
Starting out in Leningrad, Makarova rushed through nine years of ballet training in six years. She rose quickly to top roles-and almost as quickly began to chafe under the hierarchical Kirov system, which she found herself challenging. She describes how she once completely upset a performance of La Bayadere, and made the audience laugh by doing "exactly the opposite to what everyone else was doing." Nevertheless, in 1961, at the age of 20, she made her debut in London as Giselle to general acclaim. She resented that these foreign accolades were never reported by the Russian press...
...history" is not enough, not when Wolfe refuses to consider the larger problems of American life. Perhaps the claims of the Panthers or Chavez override the distaste we experience when presented with a little social slumming. Perhaps in some dim, less-serious way, Society itself is beginning to chafe at the bonds of a larger oppression. But to answer those questions, Wolfe would have to leave the Bernsteins' apartment, putting their soiree into the perspective of contemporary America. And that he doesn't want to do. Wolfe is so transfixed by the personalities in the room that he fails...
Democrats chafe bitterly under the stagnant leadership of Speaker John W. Mc-Cormack, 78. In a party caucus last week, Representative Jerome R. Waldie of California offered a resolution of no confidence in McCormack's stewardship. Waldie's thrust was laid aside by a vote of 192 to 23, but the appearance of overwhelming support for McCormack was misleading. Fully aware that Waldie had no chance of success, many reform-minded members held their fire, but hoped to fight with more success another...