Word: resentence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madame Butterfly was having its first showing since the Met packed it away in mothballs after Pearl Harbor, afraid that the public would resent watching B. F. Pinkerton, Lieutenant, U.S.N., caddishly deceive the Japanese girl Cio-Cio-San. Puccini's Pinkerton still sang...
When Rexford Guy Tugwell was a youth of 24, he wrote these Whitmanesque lines in a windy piece of free verse. America paid little attention. At Columbia University the regents sometimes seemed to resent Professor Tugwell's attempts to remake that small corner of the U.S. But he won the admiration of his next-door neighbor, Professor Raymond Moley, and packed off to Washington with him in 1933, to become one of Franklin Roosevelt's first brain-trusters. Disfavor, as it must to all favorites, came to blunt Rex Tugwell; he was shipped off to Puerto Rico, where...
...soldiers & sailors are bored, homesick, frustrated by language difficulties. They resent the fact that many Chinese have marked them as fall guys. Pickpockets and petty thieves prey on them. More ostensibly respectable Chinese gyp them openly. When Navymen began swarming ashore at Shanghai, the swank Park Hotel jacked its liquor prices 50%. Nightclub proprietors-Chinese and foreign-vie with each other in trying to take U.S. servicemen for all they can get. Ricksha drivers double and treble their fares. Waiters sneer at anything less than four times the conventional...
Last week Sarah Lawrence's 295 bobby-soxed, sloppy-joed undergrads listened intently to the inaugural speech of their new president, Harold Taylor. They were as relentlessly serious as any U.S. coeds, perhaps more so. "I resent having [the college] called a country club," said one of them. "I'm going tearing in town for the weekend, but I'll be back Monday wearing blue jeans...
...right mind would have thought otherwise than that Germany would win the war?" . . . (The hoots swelled into a roar.) Screamed Laval: "I am not a Nazi. I am not a fascist. ... I hate war-even when we win, and we always lose. ... I love the republic. ... I resent being called Pétain's 'evil genius...