Word: rancorously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atmosphere of near-despair among faculty and students. The best students now avoid the GSD, those who are there account for an inordinately high drop-out rate; the best faculty now avoid the GSD because, as one senior professor who bailed out last spring put it, "there is more rancor and bitterness at that School than I have seen in 22 years of teaching...
...Japanese surrender deals a further blow to the fading political fortunes of Sato and his pro-American policies. His party can probably stay in power, but much rancor against the U.S. will remain. About the best that can be said of the settlement is that it frees both U.S. and Japanese officials to concentrate on weightier matters-revaluation of the Japanese yen, for example, and removal of the U.S. 10% import surcharge on all foreign goods. Americans and Japanese can only hope that on those issues both sides will have more of a feel for the other's sensibilities...
Viet Nam, for all its rancor, is far from the "height of criminal hypocrisy"; it is a commitment to help a small country, and it is a commitment to stop Communist domination by force before this nation becomes strategically outflanked...
Like most other states, Rhode Island is in financial trouble. A proposed personal income tax, the state's first, might help, but it has also promoted general rancor. Democratic State Legislator Bernard Gladstone whimsically hit upon an idea to solve the fiscal crisis. He introduced a bill to abolish the income tax and instead exact a $2 levy upon every act of sexual intercourse performed in the state. Banking on either gallantry, male chauvinism or both, Gladstone suggested that only men should pay, and on a voluntary basis. Otherwise, he speculated, tax inspectors might find the law difficult...
...about Klee, as there are about Gauguin, Modigliani and Picasso. For nothing ever happened to him. Even when the Nazis in 1933 began their suppression of cultural freedom in Germany, where Klee had been teaching for twelve years, he quietly moved back to Switzerland for refuge without fuss or rancor. Politics did not interest him, and his life-style scarcely changed. With his tabby cats, his violin, and his watercolors hung out to dry like dish towels on a clothesline in his studio, Klee had always seemed like the Caspar Milquetoast of the avantgarde. From boyhood, he had managed...