Word: petulante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Cantilevered Terrace (by William Archibald) is about a family that is distant in love, close in hate. Indeed, the hate is running so high that three minutes after the curtain rises, the son is plotting to have his best friend push his aging parents off a cliff to their...
While this miracle is duly passed by Director Tyrone Guthrie in tumultuous blood-spattered surges of on-and off-stage violence, a far more significant encounter takes place. Gideon walks and talks with God in all the glory and torment of the ancient Hebrew prophets. The Lord is wrathful and...
Before the war, Sol Nazerman had been an instructor at the University of Cracow; the Nazis packed him off to Belsen and Dachau, where his wife and daughter were murdered. Surviving somehow, Sol escaped to the U.S. and prosperity; but at 45 he is a grey echo of a man...
I couldn't help noticing the petulant remark in TIME by that proponent of Dollar Christianity, Barry Goldwater. Characteristically, Barry values his money above the needs and happiness of an infant.
After manfully weathering a chichi London wedding as a satin-suited, ostrich-plumed Lord Fauntleroyish page, the Earl of Sunderland, 5, grandson of the Duke of Marlborough and distant cousin to Sir Winston Churchill, foundered at the subsequent Savoy Hotel reception. His stiff upper lip curling, out came a petulant...