Word: relishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who relish Novelist and Playwright Graham Greene most when he broods over the eternal triangle-man, guilt and God-The Complaisant Lover will be a qualified disappointment. There is not a guilt-edged line or character in the play. On its own frothy comedy terms, it is a qualified success. Like most British drawing-room comedies, Lover is so well-bred as to seem overbred emotionally. The talk is good, but at times one also wishes it was either straighter or cleverer. While the plot is more piquant than the dialogue, a fine cast is more totally convincing than...
...care to speak in the presence of a man who has stolen 3,000 words from my wife's book." Dreiser sought him out afterward, demanded that Lewis make the statement again or take it back. Lewis made it again. "So I smacked him," recounted Dreiser later with relish. "And I asked him if he wanted to say it again. He said it again. So I smacked him again." The two men were separated, with Lewis shouting, "Theodore, you are a liar and a thief." Dreiser was flooded with congratulatory mail...
Chapman noted current examples of the conservatives' relish for attacking progressive Republican candidates rather than Democratic incumbents: the National Review's opposition to Rep. John Lindsey (R.N.Y.); the YAF's drive to unseat Stanley Isaacs, the only Republican on the 27-member New York City Council; and the John Birch Society's efforts to defeat California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel in his bid for re-election...
Life is something to be enjoyed--sensuously enjoyed, enjoyed with relish abandonment...
...showdown came. Reuther's decision to strike the biggest of the auto companies was a well-calculated gamble. Financially. G.M. could hold out longer than any other company, but is unlikely to relish the prospect of seeing its own plants shut down while Ford and Chrysler go on producing. And once G.M. signs with the U.A.W.. whether after a strike or only under threat of one. Ford and Chrysler presumably would have little choice but to accept the same terms...