Word: resenters
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...that grow increasingly precocious viewing the jucier parts of Virgin Spring or La Dolce Vita. Disconcerting in that they advocate immorality of the sort that even right-thinking undergrads (who allow it in thumbed copies of The Naked Lunch, and sublimate it in Down At The Dinghy) ought to resent: they advocate a soft, yielding, and likewise feminine calculating examination of life. And secondly, that no man can afford to take any Bogart picture more seriously than it affects/effects him on the first viewing: that this article is only as off-the-cuff and irrepressibly impudent as any Bick seminar...
Usually the show's run is extended, sometimes for half a year or more. But customers who avoid doctors and insurance men, do not attend union meetings, and are past college age, resent having to pay the regular onefer price. Did the smug type in the next seat, the onefer buyer wonders, get his wholesale...
Unhappy Rich. For all that, not everybody is happy. Rich young Kuwaitis with fresh Egyptian college diplomas (scholarships are government provided) are restive and so is the growing commercial community, which includes a large number of Palestinian Arabs. They resent the sheiks' autocratic rule (nobody has a vote in Kuwait, and sheiks head all the government offices) and listen avidly to the inflammatory broadcasts from Cairo. They bewail the fact that membership in Nasser's "One Arab Nation" is still denied them. Declared one of the disgruntled: "How can we be happy when so many other Arabs...
...soldier whose wife is unfaithful), and humanity (when as last he meets his mother they squander their moment together in awkward small talk); he is convincing. Shura's part is acted with purity and directness. This young Russian actress has a face so lovely that I didn't even resent Alyosha's soppy flashback memories...
...chaplain is a neurotic without faith, and the scholars are without scholarship. Typified by Chote, the non-U students of Sturdley are obsessed to an indecent degree by love of money and of security. In this situation, the usual English envy-hatred syndrome focuses upon the American undergraduates who resent being taunted for having money, especially when they don't have it. One Yank at Oxford suffers one gibe too many at American opulence, McCarthyism, U.S. football and so on, and retorts with tart justice: "At least we don't sit around talking about pension plans before...