Word: souring
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...Your Kennedy-Johnson Essay [Nov. 26] sounds like so many sour grapes. I certainly wish you would stop trying to compare peaches and pumpkins...
Inadmissible Evidence. Words perpetually fill the theater; only rarely does one hear a voice. John Osborne has a voice. Splenetic, stinging, scornful, grieving, whining, raging-he does not go gently into the sour day and sourer night. Evidence is almost all voice, a torrential dramatic typhoon in which one man is incessantly lashed by that despair that Kirkegaard called "the sickness unto death...
...would be wrong to say that the snarl is only a pose. Sims actually is a little bit sour on the world. "We might not have organized the Deacons if Katzenbach had sent troops to Bogalusa when they were needed," Sims told Wednesday's press audience. "There's gotta...
...post as director of a planned museum in Fort Worth, which will house the multimillion-dollar collection of the late Kay Kimbell. But for Brown, who had been director since 1961, when the old county museum was mostly mastodon tusks and geological specimens, parting was such sour sorrow...
...consolation prize is Menasha Skulnik, a totally endearing imp of 70. His face is a relief map of mischief and melancholy, and there is a laugh hidden in every crease. The stage may be stationary-Skulnik never is. Visions of sour pickles and gefilte fish seem to dance in his head...