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...potency. The sight of a young couple embracing in the park stabs him with a pang of envy. Meanwhile, he mercilessly scrutinizes every sag, bulge, and wrinkle that makes his wife unappetizing. In The Revolt of the Middle-Aged Man, Dr. Edmund Bergler records the rebel's plaint: "I want happiness, love, approval, admiration, sex, youth. All this is denied me in this stale marriage to an elderly, sickly, complaining, nagging wife. Let's get rid of her, start life all over again with another woman." Home-wrecking is an inside...
...book was written largely during the final racking months before Welch's heart gave out. Echoing his own tragedy, it is a lyric, rebellious plaint of pain, fear and despair...
...place as singing spirituals in a salon. But no matter. The slight, darkly beautiful Amalia created her own special atmosphere. She put on her black shawl and, backed by four guitars, filled the hall with her smoky voice, tossing her head back to sound the chilling, soulful plaint of the fado. It was gutsy, gripping singing, full of yearning and remorse, and the audience called her back again and again for encores...
...soldier to soldier. The price of a "short time" varies with the demand from $2.50 to $5 and inevitably has produced grumbling. "General Kinnard ought to put his foot down," complained one cavalryman last week. "Five bucks is too high. He oughta make three bucks the standard price." The plaint is, of course, misdirected. An Khe Plaza is a creation of the Vietnamese and run by the Vietnamese, albeit for Americans...
Mobutu had obvious cause for com plaint. Many Assemblymen had spent their vacations whipping up local sentiment against his measures to cut down government spending and end their cherished kickbacks and bribes. Some had railed against his campaign to persuade Congolese farmers to return to the fields they had deserted during the Simba rebellion, and their opposition had been so effective that Mobutu had threatened to send troops to the empty farm lands...