Word: scold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there be? These are the handful of poems that Auden wrote between the time he went back to England after 31 years in the New World and the time of his death. It is the familiar, autumnal Auden speaking: student of fleshly decay, writer of thank-you notes, urbane scold, expert at anamnesis, a celebrator of the numinous past that raises nostalgia almost to the level of ritual...
What transformed old faithful into a common scold was a series of federal safety regulations. As of January 1972, they required every new car to have a warning system that included a buzzer that screamed at the driver and front-seat passengers until they had fastened their seat belts. But that system was too easy to circumvent. All a driver had to do was buckle up the seat belt and sit on it or simply leave the belt unfastened and prevent it from retracting by tying a knot in it. So beginning in January 1974, the U.S. Department of Transportation...
...about how he would behave in Brussels. "Henry Kissinger," said West German Chancellor Willy Brandt sarcastically, "will come to Brussels to spank all of us naughty Europeans." Not trusting to their own embassies in Washington, diplomats buttonholed American journalists with worried questions about Kissinger: Would he, as Brandt suggested, scold them as if they were high school students? Or would he bang on the table...
...Union of American Hebrew Congregations, meeting in New York City last month (TIME, Nov. 26), was expected to issue a strong statement on Watergate. The union's retiring president, Maurice Eisendrath, who died suddenly as the meeting began, had planned to scold Jews for their silence in the face of "the heinously immoral cesspool" of the Nixon Administration. But some delegates, nervous about U.S. aid to Israel, decided, as one of them put it, that it was "the height of folly to bite the hand that feeds us." Though the convention deplored Watergate as "a dangerous assault on constitutional...
...Scold. Yet Petersen was compromised in the original investigation, ordering Gray to confine its scope to gathering evidence only on the actual wiretapping. Petersen also restricted the department's prosecutors in the trial of two of the arrested men. That led Federal Judge John J. Sirica to scold them severely for asserting that the men on trial had acted wholly on their...