Word: goading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nakedly Plain. Tynan's rule for drama criticism: "Rouse tempers, goad, lacerate, raise whirlwinds." He carries out the rules with a vengeance, writing in a rich, sometimes overripe style ("My stylistic father is Horizon, my mother Vogue"). "With men who know rococo best," says one of his more cynical American admirers, "it's Tynan two to one." He has an unerring eye for the sorest point, whether it be an actress' weight or her unpleasing hands. After seeing Britain's venerated Dame Edith Evans play Shakespeare's Cleopatra, he wrote: "Bereft of fan, lace...
...Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement, 33, for "his contributions to the general welfare of the people" of his state (TIME...
...Eastern Front: "Before I became Chancellor, I thought the general staff was like a mastiff which had to be held tight by the collar . . . Since then ... it has consistently tried to impede every action that I have thought necessary . . . It is I who have always had to goad on this mastiff...
...Congress have such firm grass roots they cannot be eradicated. Eisenhower should aim toward the same goal more subtly: by returning to his middle idea he should make it clear he will withhold endorsement from Republicans who actively oppose the main items in his program. Such a statement may goad Congress into some needed action, and will certainly better fulfill the President's role as leader of a nation...
Until the teaching staff of requirement courses begins to approach its work with the enthusiasm due to the authors read, and with a willingness to goad their classes if necessary; and until the students desert their present conviction that the more completely a waste of time a requirement course is the better off they are, the actual nature of the language requirement must remain obscured in the mists of lethargy and stubbornness. Humphrey Fisher...