Word: rancorous
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Thanks to TIME, Oct. 31 for quoting from the Christian Century article on Protestant paranoia. I wasn't aware that there was at this time a renaissance of Reformation rancor. I thought that Protestantism, after all these years, had crystallized into something more than a negation. The pity is that we haven't learned to disagree without being disagreeable...
...Differences within our ranks," he said. "That has done us a lot of harm." The man responsible for the "differences," Rebel Aneurin Bevan, was ready to blame Labor's defeat on the party leadership's milksopping me-tooism, though his own divisive tactics and his class-hating rancor probably drove away more votes than his flaming oratory brought out. Bevan himself dropped more than 2,000 in his own coal-mining stomping ground at Ebbw Vale, and two of his disciples-Editor Michael Foot and Geoffrey Bing-were beaten...
...with wit and wind, fact and fancy, rancor and fellowship, democracy worked its special ferment in Great Britain. At the campaign's halfway mark, big things like the Big Four meeting, little things like a drop in the price of tea, bred confidence in Tory meeting rooms. The Liberal London News Chronicle reported that in "Labor committee room after committee room, there is the grey admission that half the workers are disheartened, the other half defeatist." There were, of course, Laborites who would deny it. But most of the betting was that unless the wind turned full about, Britain...
...Somebody else always got the lead," Grace recalls, without rancor. Even then remote and selfabsorbed, Grace used to write poetry, some serious, some "little gooney ones" that showed a neat turn of phrase. Sample, written when she was 14: I hate to see the sun go down And squeeze itself into the ground, Since some warm night it might get stuck And in the morning...
...objective causes with which we justify our feeling of rancor against an enemy, guilty of having beaten us in a war which we declared, there's not one that holds good. They have taken from us neither ships, nor cannons, nor a foot of land; they treated our prisoners with great humanity; they have given us 40 billion lire [$65 million]. Unfortunately all these claims on our gratitude are obscured by one defect of which there isn't the slightest hope that Americans can be cured because it's in their blood, it's constitutional...