Word: soured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toddler, he would eavesdrop on his sisters' piano lessons, and by the time he was three he was "a terrible little fiend" about music, screaming when his sisters struck a sour note, banging the piano lid down on their fingers. At four, he was performing at charity concerts, pressing his engraved calling cards on everyone he met: ARTUR THE GREAT PIANO VIRTUOSO. It annoyed him even then that people always asked if he was any kin to the great Anton Rubinstein, and so he took to prancing around town with the words NO RELATION inscribed on the front...
...most critical moment in Promise follows Leslie's discovery that her tyke has secretly made his movie debut opposite a Junoesque redhead in a wild bikini. Such rancid twists of plot could easily sour a comedy, except that the kid is a disarming moppet named Michael Bradley who saves his heartiest responses for a pile of red plastic blocks. Warren saves his for Leslie, and most of the fun is as simple as that...
Also in the issue is a brief open letter from Ralph E. Miller, teaching fellow in economics. He suggests that Republicans concentrate their efforts at the state and local levels and leave the national government to the Democrats. This seems little more than sour grapes, vintage 1964. Finally, the Review has extracted a few remarks from a speech by Theodore R. McKeldin, the Republican mayor of Baltimore. The remarks are innocuous enough, concluding with a quote from Kipling. Perhaps the Republicans have run out of quotes from Lincoln...
...share: his Pittsburgh Pirates won a World Series in 1960 when Bill Mazeroski hit a home run in the last inning of the last game, and his Chateaugay won the 1963 Kentucky Derby at long-shot odds of 9-1. Galbreath's luck seemed to sour after he paid $1,350,000 to lease the undefeated Italian stallion Ribot for stud duty, improving the stock at his farm in Lexington, Ky. When his original lease ran out last year, about all Galbreath had to show for his money was five years of feed bills and a sore-legged...
...kidding themselves when they claim that they can taste the difference between competing brands of liquor. Moreover, though most people can taste the difference between Scotch and bourbon on the first drink, Bishop claims that most bourbon drinkers cannot distinguish between different types of bourbon (straight, charcoal-filtered, sour-mash) after the second drink. After the third, he says, they cannot tell bourbon from Canadian rye, and after the fourth they cannot distinguish bourbon from Scotch. After the fifth, presumably, they couldn't care less. Bishop also adds a note on something that many a hard-pressed host...