Word: petulante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shaw's Cleopatra has feline forebears. During her sixteenth year, Caesar does not, as so many critics have maintained, turn a cat into a queen (Shakespeare shows us the Queen Cleopatra); he turns an untrained kitten into a full-grown cat. Miss Nye is careful always to preserve her felinity...
The heir-apparent is still avuncular Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, architect of the West German economic boom, and the most popular choice among West German voters. One Cabinet minister guesses that Erhard also commands the loyalty of 60% of C.D.U. politicians. But Erhard still has one formidable enemy-der Alte...
There once was an old Russian peasant woman, probably Nikita Khrushchev's grandmother, and she kept about a dozen chickens. One chicken, Charlie was her name, was a petulant and ill-mannered creature, who posed the other chickens around and sometimes ate their food. If the old woman tried to...
From the sun-soaked beaches of Copacabana to the rain-drenched upper reaches of the Amazon, more than 10 million Brazilians went to the polls to vote on how powerful the country's presidency should be. In September 1961, after Jânio Quadros' petulant resignation and flight...
Stop the World-I Want to Get Off is a petulant British everyman's How to Succeed, written, directed, composed, mimed, sung, and stage-hogged by Anthony Newley, who is not all that talented. His helpmate, Anna Quayle, is a comic find.