Word: rancor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of anxiety that led people to Los Angeles and the gaudy madness that was nurtured there. He used Los Angeles, and particularly the tawdry glamour of Hollywood, as a perfect metaphor for the screaming end of many poor dreams of glory. West wrote with fury, but without rancor or condescension. "It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible the results are," runs the novel's most famous passage. "But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous." By that standard, John Schlesinger...
...accession of Gerald R. Ford to the presidency has brought few palpable changes so far to the lives of most Americans. But to the press, the turn over in the Oval Office already seems like the dawn of a new era, free of the rancor of the Nixon years...
...walkout halted for a 14-day "cooling off' period and striking veterans began reporting to training camp, the established league's exhibition season had been a disaster with rookies and free agents playing humdrum football in half-empty stadiums. Even if the strike is settled soon, the rancor between owners and strikers-not to mention bad blood between strikers and veterans who crossed picket lines-promises to linger through the season ahead...
...Broadway all night or spit verbal napalm at the world from a fire escape in the Jewish ghetto and spend the rest of your time giving lectures and writing for learned and prestigious journals. You can try it, of course, but your experience in edge city, of bleakness and rancor and the humor they generate, becomes a shallow, vicarious one. That at least had been my impression of much of Goldman's earlier work. It was hamstrung in diction and conceptualization between two worlds. So I expected a misshapen book, claiming to be inside Lenny Bruce's soul...
...inoculated the world with chess fever singlehanded. Piling demands upon tantrums, he elevated the first prize from $3,000 to $2 million and transformed a board game into a blood sport. But Steiner, a literary critic first and a chess patzer second, is appalled by Fischer's xenophobic rancor, his avarice and below all, his literary taste (Fu Manchu, Tarzan and Playboy...