Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formidable forces. State security controls where people can live, where they can travel, even whether they may put on an art exhibition. Citizens who are arrested sometimes vanish for months on end. Party cadres and bureaucrats feel that their positions and prerogatives are threatened by the economic reforms. They resent the emergence of a new managerial technocracy and the promotion to positions of responsibility of intellectuals, "the stinking ninth category" in the original Maoist cosmology...
...seem far away. Sarah is brought up among other prosperous Blacks and whites, and she naturally assumes many of their values. When her older brother brings home a Jewish classmate, the scene resembles "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" with a twist. The Black parents resent the white woman, but Sarah's brother Mathew retorts by pointing out that they should have expected an interracial affair. The problem is that these privileged Philadelphia Negroes would like their children to marry other nice colored people, a prospect Sarah and Mathew find excruciatingly dull...
...mentioning a possible Cuban and Nicaraguan role in international drug trafficking. Then, in a classic case of overstatement, Weiss heatedly added that Shultz's remarks "remind me of the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954." Shultz reddened and replied angrily, "When you compare me to Senator (Joseph) McCarthy, I resent it deeply." The Secretary refused to testify further until he received an apology. Weiss said that he had not meant to make a personal comparison of Shultz and McCarthy, to which Shultz replied, "Thank...
...result has been a series of U.S. threats, both explicit and implied, to suspend military cooperation with New Zealand if Lange refuses to give in. Such an approach may raise hackles Down Under even more. New Zealanders resent any kind of pressure, from Australia or the U.S.; Australians are only slightly less sensitive to strong-arm tactics, wherever they may come from. New Zealanders are divided in the current national debate. Recent polls show that while 58% of the New Zealand population of 3.2 million opposes visits by nuclear-armed warships, 59% would not be troubled by calls by ships...
Ironically, or perhaps only to be expected, the questions of the interviewer, often appallingly inane, come to us as interruptions, unsolicited intrusions. We resent the seemingly gratuitous impetus, the impulse that prompts the question: we hold our breath as if for an expected blow. Barthes' voice moves ahead, seeks us out, and it is this trajectory that abort, itself, fails when the other voice, harse, discordant, "somewhat sadistic," breaks in. If there is place for the reader, the privileged spectator in this staging without a stage, it lies in the crying of the question, "how do you know when...