Word: rancorous
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Such sociological rancor can be therapeutic. But there are historical hatreds so strongly rooted, they imprison the hater. Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist (Little, Brown; 246 pages; $22.95) is the story of a young man's attempt to break from his father's inflamed obsession with anti-Semitism and its central event of this century, Hitler's Final Solution. Edgy with irony and urban humor, the book also gives a rare insider's view of an insular Jewish community that is as alien to mainstream American Jewry as it is to the rest of the country...
Both sides quickly complied, accepting the ruling philosophically and seemingly without rancor. "It's not unusual for one company to think the other's advertising is off base," says Jack Ziegler, president of North America SmithKline Beecham consumer health care. "We view Johnson & Johnson/Merck's advertising as inappropriate, as they view ours. Unfortunately this leads to lawsuits...
...First" policy instructing teachers to promote American values as "superior to other foreign or historic cultures." The policy struck many people in the predominantly white, Baptist county as offensive. School-board meetings that had once attracted just dozens now drew hundreds of adults, itching to trade insults. As the rancor deepened, voters seeking to defuse the ideological tension formed a committee that screened candidates and raised money. "It was a joint effort by parents, teachers and the business community," says Gary Landry of Florida Education Association United. "They were tired of the divisiveness." In the end the moderates regained...
...Dennis Potter's savage TV scripts and in a generation of performers, from Albert Finney to the Beatles, whom Osborne's example encouraged to speak in their own rude voices. He was the first to cry fire in a crowded London theater. From Anger on, no sexual or social rancor was off limits. Nobody had to behave...