Word: petulante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the plush, colonnaded picture gallery, Lord Pengo (Charles Boyer) wheedles, cajoles, amuses, and stimulates a cultural lust for owning Giorgiones and Masaccios in the blank-walled minds of crotchety, sulky and pinchpenny plutocrats. But, as someone says, for him selling is "a kind of disembodied activity, like praying," and...
The unnamed imperialists worrying Sihanouk were clearly his neighbors, Thailand and South Viet Nam, both of which have old feuds going with Cambodia. Sihanouk likes to show off his 28,000-man army, along with the 25,000 men and women in paramilitary units, but he evidently feels that they...
Petulant Praise. Said Nixon, in words that were too small of spirit to make for real tragedy: "Now that all the members of the press are so delighted that I have lost, I'd like to make a statement of my own." He spoke in petulant praise of his...
Judging by this petulant, priggish and reticent autobiography, Bryher seems to have been daydreaming through most of her encounters with the personalities who made modern literature. She recalls almost nothing of her talks with James Joyce or William Butler Yeats. She was invited often to the salon of Gertrude Stein...
Other voices began to be heard. To New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, a Kennedy supporter, it seemed particularly ridiculous that the President should bother to pop off at any segment of a press that has generally been more than kind. ("Never in recent American history has such...