Word: rancore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After weeks of on-again, off-again bargaining, ungentlemanly rancor and disingenuous wrangling, such skepticism was understandable. Yet last week it seemed that the angry artists (orchestra, chorus, dancers and soloists) and the Met management had at last agreed to agree on a compromise. Whether they acted out of real reconciliation or sheer fatigue remained a question...
...ante bellum. Some of his financial dealings raise the specter of Fortas-like improprieties, different though the cases are. All that was known, and seemingly surmounted, during the initial weeks of Senate hearings on his nomination. Then a fresh round of G.O.P. grumblings on Capitol Hill signaled that rancor was turning into revolt. Faced with insurgence, which if combined with Democratic votes could lead eventually to defeat of the Haynsworth nomination, Richard Nixon dug in his heels. Presidential prestige and power faced off against the liberal conscience within the G.O.P...
...second lesson apparent for candidates with leftist views is to appeal to the fiscal conservatism of the voters. Harrington, for example, widely publicized figures on military spending and especially on ABM (still recalled with rancor in north of Boston suburbs). Within the limits of patriotism, defense figures can be made to seem truly appalling. In the TV debates and often on the circuit, Harrington frequently reminded his listeners that and23 billion was wasted on obsolete weapons over the last fifteen years. With the Democrats out of office, the left can feel at case in attacking federal waste...
Taosenos complain of the hippies' immorality, drug abuse and public nudity, but the complaints have proved largely illusory. A more realistic reason for the rancor is the fact that as many as 25% of local residents-most of whom are Mexican Americans-are unemployed, and many resent the white middle-class hippies' obvious flouting of the American ideal. "They are making fun of our poverty and our fight for survival," says Francis Quintana, a local school principal. Another explanation is that local entrepreneurs fear the hippies will hurt Taos' largest industry, tourism. "Tourists don't want...
Connell perceives the humor in Bridge's predicament, which is probably necessary: a good man is hard to stand. But his restrained tone of voice and inhumanly cool, cruel irony convey the impression of barely repressed personal rancor, such as a son might feel in trying to discuss his father. Perhaps this, and the fact that it is set in the 1930s, is what makes Mr. Bridge more than an objective caricature of the uptight WASP personality so often under attack today. What emerges is a muted image of an American type as pure, enduring and applicable as George...