Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feeling of depression wrought upon me by the present status of American "Fine Art" is offset only by a passionate hatred for the critics who have brought this condition about. The shame is not that we have no great masters of fine art, the shame is that those with talent enough are discouraged from...
Buying a Day. Sitting down with an author, Editor Allen will whisper soothingly ("But I can't do this to you . . . What a shame to lose this . . ."). Before the author knows it, Allen has slashed and re-arranged the manuscript. A successful author himself (Only Yesterday, a history of the '20s, sold 750,000 copies), Allen scrupulously tots up office hours spent on his own writing, then "buys a day" (i.e., deducts it from his salary). Fred and his wife Agnes (a Reader's Digest editor) collaborated on the between-the-wars picture-history, I Remember Distinctly...
...friendships with Addison, Arbuthnot, Pope and Gay were among the happiest of the age. Women disgusted him, but he loved one woman all his life. Exiled from England to the deanery of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, he conquered, with Gulliver (1726), the world he wished to shame. And though he detested Ireland, he wrote so fiercely in her defense (in The Drapier's Letters and A Modest Proposal) that the Irish took off their hats when he passed in the street...
...woody dreamland of hefty peasants and prime wine. Only Jean Cassou gives an impression of both vitality and veracity. His macabre story is an up-to-date version of Romeo & Juliet, in which Juliet ("a nice, retiring person . . . the sort who hates being conspicuous") is put to shame by the amorous frenzy of Romeo. This tale teems with the wit for which France was once famed, and brings a genuine touch of comic relief to a world of despair...
...Greek island of Rhodes to begin the second and most difficult part of his job-to arrange a long-term settlement between Jews and Arabs. He left behind a sputtering Palestine. The Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi accused the Israeli government, in accepting the truce, of "submitting to shame rather than continuing the struggle." The implied threat to break the truce brought a sharp statement from Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: "The Government will not suffer any attempt to be made by anyone in our midst to break the truce . . . Anyone who attempts to break...