Word: petulante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None shows this better than his masterpiece, the Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine. According to legend, Catherine was executed and borne heavenward by angels where her devotion was rewarded when, having refused many suitors, she was betrothed to the Infant Christ by the Virgin Mary. It should be a supremely...
Petulant Performance. As a reprisal against the proceedings, the Red air circus was a petulant and ineffectual performance. So was its counterpart on the ground, where the Communists tied up traffic for nine days on the autobahns linking West Berlin with West Germany. Civilian and allied military cars were stalled...
The Name of the Game. Yet so petulant have many Washington newsmen become that David Lawrence, no ardent Johnson admirer himself, has taken the trouble to point out that the press has no God-given right to "cross-examine the Chief Executive," and that "it is not the obligation of...
Janet Lee Parker plays Maja, Rubek's restless young wife, with an excess of verve. Maja is supposed to be petulant and mischievous. Too often Miss Parker makes her seem simply immature. In the second act she sprawls and bounces about the stage like a hypertense teenager. The contrast between...
Off the hustings, both sides had their problems. The Tory government had to own up last week to the fact that the trade gap had widened still further in August (see WORLD BUSINESS). Labor, whose promise to deliver growth without inflation hangs upon keeping Britain's petulant trade unions...