Word: envious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...archetypical. In Dr. Sheehan on Running he promulgates the notion of the runner as a special subspecies of human, a person gifted not only with better lungs and heart but with superior spirituality. Alas, superiority carries penalties. Sheehan feels the runner is specially susceptible to the meanness of an envious society. "Why," he asks, "is the runner a lightning rod for the anger and aggression and violence of others?" And Sheehan answers himself: "The runner puts himself above the law, above society. And men in gangs and crowds and mobs know this and react accordingly." Sheehan intones: "The runner knows...
...human actors are mildly envious. "Those puppets get acting moments that most actors never have," observes Austin Pendleton who plays the movie's softhearted villain. Director James (Kid Blue) Frawley has already suspended disbelief. Says he: "My work with Kermit the Frog is as specific as it would be with Bobby Redford...
...Just who does this Mr. Connally think he is? His vituperation and bile are, I believe, unsurpassed by those of anyone else on your staff--Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney indeed!!! I thought the new paper was a wonderful effort, and that Mr. Connoly's obviously envious criticisms were just plain mean. How would Mr. Connally like it if Punch Sulzberger was to write in The N.Y. Times about how shoddy and leftist a newspaper The Crimson is? Claude Englehardt...
...their tips prove to be accurate, can reward them with up to 10% of the extra taxes seized. "Thousands of tips are received every year, and quite a few are generated by a get-even motive," says IRS Spokesman Wilson Fadely. Jilted lovers, jealous spouses, aggrieved employees, angry (or envious) neighbors and other informants last year collected rewards totaling more than $360,000 for snitches that produced $14.9 million in extra taxes. What is more, the IRS always tries to audit the returns of those people fingered by law-enforcement authorities as suspected organized-crime figures...
...family Fitzgerald celebrates is rich in foibles. There are the cherished baths, where Dilly solved his cryptograph ic riddles and Eddie planned the next week's Punch. There is Wilfred, sympathetic for the workers in the 1926 General Strike, but winsomely envious of a fellow cleric gone off to drive a train. And Ronnie, ever the six-year-old boy who had brought a bunch of fresh-picked flowers to his new mother, always needy for the mothering attention of elegant ladies in great country houses. It was under Lady Acton's affectionate (if platonic) wing that...