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"Patronizing Assumption." But the sense of injury went deeper than dollars. Particularly galling to Canadians, the inquiring Congressmen found, were U.S. citizens who "adopted a patronizing assumption that Canada, like a poor relation, would remain at our beck and call." Among the symptoms of discontent: revived protectionist sentiment, a desire...
The same rule fed his fortune as he drained the city's malaria-breeding lowlands and on them built whole new developments such as Prati, where Rome's wealthy now dwell. It fortified him through the galling years when he repaired and built streets in Rome, ports in...
Crushed by a Mountain. Such indifference was of no avail when the mighty Mongol hordes, headed by Kubla Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, arrived at the gates of fragrant Hangchou. Before his fierce tribesmen the southern capital fell-crushed, one Chinese historian wrote, as "the Sacred Mountain T'ai...
"Noblesse oblige." He then rummaged through the refrigerator and took my last bottle of Schweppes. "It is especially galling to return at this time of year."
As befits a book as thoughtful as this one, Morrison's writing is clear, careful, and full of meaning. The author presents the endless minor exasperations of modern life, the galling though unimportant personal frictions, with a truthfulness that is often painful--the more painful because of the understanding which...