Word: petulante
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As the West's new leaders probe for new foreign-policy approaches, there is always the danger of a misstep. Johnson, for instance, almost certainly overreacted to Fidel Castro's nuisance-value move of cutting off Guantanamo's water supply. He has got to learn that activity...
Insults & Invitations. Although it bills itself as nonpolitical, the Colombo club has strengthened some anti-Communist positions, but its ranks abound with "neutralists" and leftward-drifters. Indonesia, which stubbornly fights the new Federation of Malaysia, a Colombo partner, on the ground that it is a front for British "neocolonialism," used...
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...