Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moralist assents to the reigning order, but he may endure it with "the heaviest and coldest heart, and never cease to feel it as a yoke." The religious man, on the other hand, in his strongest and most fully developed form, never feels the demands of life as an odious burden. "Dull submission," according to James, "is left far behind, and a mood of welcome, which may fill any place on the scale between cheerful serenity and enthusiastic gladness, has taken its place...
...Teuber is a highly competent Deputy: rigidly controlled, beautifully articulate. At times I found him a bit too conscientiously odious; Lord Angelo, I suspect, should not pick his teeth and ears or twitch his mouth quite so often. One must preserve the distinction between heartache and heartburn...
...army's second in command, Colonel Ketsana Vongsouvanh, was shot in the back. At Ketsana's funeral last week, Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le, who once worked hand in glove with the Pathet Lao, made no effort to conceal his disenchantment with his former cohorts. "This odious crime," said Kong Le, "was the work of those who are under a foreign influence." Kong Le restricted his troops to their base, ordered the Pathet Lao to keep out of neutralist encampments...
...Children have naturally bad taste, and of course the Glass kids can pick their own clothes; their terrible clothes become holy by wear. Children love ritual; under Seymour's hypnotic influence, every bit of business in the Glass family has become ritual. Other people's rituals are odious; thus Seymour rejects a nonsectarian wedding ceremony in favor of elopement. It is the universal cry of childhood: "No! Play it my way," and it is Salinger's law for his children, even the grown-up ones...
...Eric Erickson, an American who came to Sweden in the '20s, did well in the oil business, took out Swedish citizenship. Then came the war. Erickson, like most neutrals, continued to do business with the Germans, but when he was put on the Allied blacklist his reaction was odious. He publicly insulted the country of his birth, openly frequented the German legation in Stockholm, made fulsome speeches praising the Führer...