Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voters, Montanans seem to be pretty unpredictable, though they do like visitors and resent being patted on the head, if you know what I mean...
...John Steinbeck is successful; his work is powerful propaganda; I love his little red colt [The Red Pony]. But I resent-as I resent the bathos of Dickens-John Steinbeck's attempt to engage my sympathies by means of "phony pathos." He has this same fault in Of Mice...
...villagers are not at all impressed by Tom's repeated examples of resourcefulness. They resent, too, such boyish pranks as his smoking out the school-house with a chemical mixture, bringing a bottle of nitroglycerine aboard a crowded train, setting the baggage car afire with phosphorus. Not until Tom sends a Morse code warning with a locomotive whistle, prevents a train wreck, do chastened citizens acclaim him a hero...
...Americans of this second westward trek are still fighting the desert, the mountains, hunger, thirst, death. Tame Indians stand and wonder at them. The Indians these modern pioneers fight are California deputies who resent the invasion of their State as much as earlier red men resented earlier whites. These are in a better position to show resentment...
...links with Germany . . . had been completely disrupted by the War . . . Uncle Sam had suddenly become the only banker and grocer on his street." Unchanged remain the bottom facts that: 1) South Americans are culturally attached to Europe, not at all to the U. S.; 2) South Americans still deeply resent being "semicolonials" of U. S. business...