Word: softheartedness
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Those Cursed Tuscans is a white-hot, sometimes overwrought exposition of Malaparte's philosophy and an apologia, really, for his way of life. As far as he is concerned, it was a mistake to unite Italy, for unification brought spare, lean and hungry Tuscans into contact with a lot...
Fair or Foul. The fledgling Orioles needed teaching, all right. That first season they wound up 57 games out of first place. Next year they finished seventh; then sixth. Baltimore fans hardly seemed to notice: "Bushers," visiting players called the crowds for screaming like banshees at every ball the Orioles...
He leaves behind a collection of egocentrics as outrageous as any in modern fiction, ranging from a scrofulous teen-aged novelist named Leo Piper to Billy Box, a softhearted symphony conductor who spends much of his time kidnaping animals from research laboratories. In the end, Ninian returns to Silverwood, but...
¶ Do not be softhearted. "The frail young woman with a drove of ragged children trailing her is often an agent for some secondhand store, and follows all of the rummage sales in that same appealing manner. If some customers seem actually needy, tell them how to get in touch...
Every year it gets a little harder for the Administration to sell foreign aid to the U.S. Congress-and 1958 threatens to be the hardest year yet. With the demands of Sputnik era defense and of welfare-type spending that cannot be cut, even members of Congress who know perfectly...