Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taxpayers are informers-but most of them resent the fact that the other fellow so often seems to get away with something. They do not grumble so much about the size of their own tax as about loopholes or advantages open to others: the foreign tax shelters, the oil-depletion allowance, the movie star or businessman who settles his tax bill for less than he owes, the man who can afford high-priced accountants to get around taxes even if he does not evade them. The Internal Revenue Service believes that the whole tax structure needs a complete overhaul...
...Curia's Critics. Although non-Italian cardinals are all formally assigned to congregations, few enjoy sitting in on the daily work when they are in Rome. Resident professionals often resent the presence of outsiders, conduct all business in Italian, a language that their visitor may not understand. Since nearly all dioceses in the world are short of priests, bishops are reluctant to let their best men work in the Vatican. Moreover, few non-Italian priests want to give up the hope of becoming a bishop for the life of a church bureaucrat. "I'd rather be a bishop...
Some of the individuals who were polled seemed to resent the questions. In reply to "Did you see the Rules Committee hearing on television?" one man retorted, "I don't know what you people do during the day, but I work." Another gentleman commented on the general nature of the inquiry: "These are not yes or no questions. You ask somebody who hasn't thought about it, and, sure, he'll give you yes and no answers...
...Titles by Saul Bass" is the arresting line. Movie audiences used to resent, with the same resentment that is provoked by a TV commercial, the long parade of credits at the beginning of a film. Saul Bass has singlehandedly changed that. More than half of New York's film critics actually cited Bass's black stalking malkin as far and away the best thing in Walk on the Wild Side. It was. Suggesting the story's themes of harlotry, perversion and vengeance, it set a mood that the ensuing picture tried but failed to match...
Free or Freeze? Some school boards are so confused about the reforms that they simply ignore them. Many are too broke to try them. Others fiercely resent outside "dictation." A prime tar get is the national testing programs (more than 20 so far), for everything from college admissions to science scholarships. Protesting that schools are being forced to teach just for the tests, a committee of top school administrators last month called for a nationwide revolt: "Local school systems should refuse to participate in nationally sponsored tests unless those tests can be demon strated to have value commensurate with...