Word: sop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus in a recent issue of BBC's The Listener, testy, old (64) Artist-Author Wyndham Lewis* rings a knell for his fellow English painters. One reason for the bell's toll, says Lewis, is high taxes which sop up the spare cash of collectors who were once well-to-do. Other reasons for the artist's sad state: his expenses have more than doubled in recent years; dealers demand 337% commission on everything they sell...
...state the case correctly when you say that the doctors are obliged to join or to starve; you must know that the sop of private practice is not a real alternative-there is practically none...
...minor thug once in a while, and occasionally rescue some imperilled citizen, but he is clearly inferior to Superman. In private life--that is, when Superman becomes "mild-mannered Clark Kent," a newspaper reporter--Batman turns out to be the publisher of the newspaper, but this is just a sop...
...This sop to the matinee trade undercuts some of the strongest human values in the film. The G.I. has a legitimate gripe: his allotment will not feed a gnat, let alone a healthy, expectant wife. The professor has been left on a shelf by loving friends and colleagues, to be dusted off at their convenience. Whenever these mistreated males threaten to let out a hearty, realistic beef about their grievances, Writer-Director George Seaton quickly smothers their growls under the suds...
Voluntary Conformity. To the Labor Government, however, the new tax was not only an attractively easy way of raising a lot of money, but a soak-the-rich sop to trade unionists whom it has asked to accept wage freezes (TIME, Feb. 16). Fortified by Marshall Plan aid, which Cripps hailed as "a light and hope to the freedom-loving peoples of the world," Britain's Socialist Government felt that it was safely over some of the political rough spots, too. Russia's grab for Europe had rallied even most left-wing Laborite rebels behind the government...