Word: rancorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best in Chopin, and vice versa. Chopin's elusive poetic shadings and magical fire are easy to overdo. As a Pole, Rubinstein seems to understand the zal in Chopin's works, which Music Critic James Huneker defined as "a baleful compound of pain, sadness, secret rancor and revolt...
...last ha'penny. And Rank is also ruthlessly fair, yet does not always take kindly to criticism. To a newspaper critic, he once roared: "Don't you know, when you write that kind of thing, that Christ is looking over your shoulder?" Yet Rank bears no rancor for Cinemactor James Mason, who thinks that Rank's monopolistic operations will eventually wreck Britain's movie industry. Recently Rank was called upon to accept a British drama award on Mason's behalf-a situation so whimsical that Rank recognized it with an amused twitch of his mustache...
...UNRRA mission. As if to answer former UNRRA colleagues who attacked "inaccuracies" in his Harper's articles, he admits that he hardly qualifies as a full-fledged Soviet expert. But he thinks he learned why the Russians act as they do, and puts his case plainly and without rancor...
Characteristically, he made the most of his time by boning up on world history and becoming the camp champion at Chinese checkers, ice skating, long distance walking, woodcutting. He bore the federal government no rancor. Said he: "I am enraged." But he added: "I am coolly enraged." He knew he still had the heart of the people...
...delegates around the Luxembourg Palace council table exuded international friendliness. Cheerfully and without rancor they discussed a difficult problem: was it right to label a wine as a "Bordeaux," even if it had been diluted with inferior Algerian grapes? The cheerful worriers were delegates to an international wine convention which met in the back rooms of the Palace. When Ernie Bevin was told about their presence, he sighed wistfully: "I bet they got away to dinner at a respectable hour...