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Word: peevishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some will call this a peevish jeremiad. I am quite aware that it is a luxury to feel distress in response to this type of incident. My experience is not equivalent to or representative of the problems facing most blacks in this country; it is almost trivial when thousands upon thousands of blacks are denied the most basic rights and opportunities. But I can and will not deny the particulars of my own life, and the racism which I have described, while a more subtle, less ubiquitous form than most, is only the next level up in the undistinguished hierarchy...

Author: By Karen A. Odom, | Title: For No One's Calipers | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...readers, Antonia, 44, has compiled Love Letters (Knopf; $8.95), a tender anthology of 135 amorous notes dashed off through the centuries by lovers of distinction. Sample sweet nothings: "You are a wretch, truly perverse, truly stupid, a real Cinderella. You never write to me at all," a peevish Napoleon scrawled to Josephine from Verona. "Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry," wrote Oscar Wilde to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. Complained Benjamin Franklin to his platonic French friend Mme. Brillon: "You find innumerable faults in me, whereas I see only one fault in you (but perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1977 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...which we want to get rid of," he remarked, "but the great intangible machine of commercial tyranny which oppresses the lives of all of us." It was not the machine but its owners who converted skilled into unskilled labor. When Morris advocated "simplicity," he was not calling for a peevish and cloistered asceticism but for a clearing away of inessentials. "I demand a free and unfettered animal life for man first of all: I demand the utter extinction of all asceticism. If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry, or hungry, or sleepy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Renaissance Man | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...Percy's questioning is something else. Simply by asking whether flaccid tolerance is not as brutalizing as rigid in tolerance, he raises the kind of issue that good fiction can most thoroughly show in the round. Despite its occasional reediness of tone and a bitterness that seems more peevish than profound, Lancelot makes an entertaining run at high seriousness. It is easy to read and hard to forget. Paul Gray

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Questing After An Unholy Grail | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...Gerald Ford. Said Carter: "Ford is a good automobile. It is not doing too well in the White House-stuck in the mud, four flat tires, out of gas, gears locked in reverse." The stridency of his attack offended many voters. At the same time, Carter was growing more peevish with the press, and he began to withdraw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Route to the Top | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

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