Word: quarreling
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...both his plays and his poems in the same book. And why was that so surprising? He waspublishing his complete works, after all. But in Jonson's day the emphasis would be on the word works and not on the word complete. It might seem like a silly semantic quarrel today, but in the early 1600's there was a profound difference between a play and a literary work. One was frivolous, the other serious. The words play and work were taken quite literally and quite seriously...
What is going on? If one listens to the rhetoric coming from each side, it sounds like a kindergarten quarrel. It is important not to get caught up in the rhetoric and instead analyze the recent events in their historical context...
Reeve believes restoration is just around the corner. Fine. I have no quarrel with a man who wants to believe that. If he needs that to get through his day, who am I to disabuse him of his fantasies...
...belated Broadway debut. A pity, since it is a delightful rediscovery. We're in a retirement home for stage actresses, where teacups rattle with the arrival of Lotta Bainbridge (Lauren Bacall), who's had a 30-year feud with resident diva May Davenport (Rosemary Harris). People chatter and reminisce, quarrel and reconcile, and die. Coward's wit has a melancholy glow here, and he has crafted one of the most sensitive, least patronizing portraits of old age ever...
Atlanta prides itself on being "the city too busy to hate," but it's not too busy to quarrel about the mayor's pugnacious strategy for battling the Southeastern Legal Foundation. That conservative group filed a federal lawsuit in August alleging that the city discriminates against white males by requiring prime city contractors to set up joint ventures with minority- or female-owned businesses. Tucker supports affirmative action, but she complains that Campbell has abused the program by showering lucrative contracts on his wealthy black supporters. She argues that courts have become so hostile to affirmative action that spending hundreds...