Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost every story repeats the theme of the trapped American. The first story is appropriately entitled "Appearances". On the surface it describes the quarrel of a New York suburban couple over whether to attend a funeral. Using numerous arguments of social obligation the woman persuades her husband to abandon his weekly golf game and attend a funeral, for appearances. The confining pressures of habit--and resignation to it--are made vivid. "I took for granted that you'd be going to the funeral. I just took it for granted," Mrs. Ambrie explains. Her husband accepts this, saying "I suppose...
...lest Khrushchev appear to be the "coward" that Mao now called him. Now that the Chinese Reds have nailed their theses tothe Kremlin wall, some men in Moscow would be thinking of excommunication. Stalin's posthumous excommunication took only three years to accomplish; and already the Sino-Soviet quarrel has raged for longer than that...
There was no quarrel with Dolly's argument that New York needs its newspapers. The strike has deprived New Yorkers of 5,780,000 papers a day, has idled 20,000 workers, and has cost an estimated $100 million in wages, advertising and circulation revenue. But whether publication of the Post would do anything to help settle the argument was something else again...
...have no quarrel with George Hamlin's directing; its defects are those of a play that often drags. Unquestionably Babe has given most of his care to the role of Walter, and Richard Simons sees to it that his lines are not wasted; he knows how to be sufficiently kindly in his final derangement to make the switches of the pageant plausible, just as Griselda (Carol Schechtman) is sufficiently astute, generous, and conventional. The mystics, led by Kerr and Belle MacDonald, have nothing but ghosts of parts to feed on, which is a pity, for they are evidently capable players...
Nikita Khrushchev was getting a little self-conscious about the way the capitalist world was cheering on Red Russia's quarrel with Red China. At a Moscow party given by the visiting King of Laos, Nikita grabbed the hand of the Chinese ambassador for all the attendant Western correspondents to see, and declared: "When the last spadeful of earth is thrown on the grave of capitalism, we will do it together with China...