Word: sours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro question" is contemptible (at the very least) in his state, but Carter measures up so well by all the other yardsticks of Southern quality--family, manners, appearance, and so on--that he is almost above reproach. If anyone attacked him for his one aberration, it would sound like sour grapes; remember, at that party, he was best in the show...
...ours was the prophesy, theirs was the message come true. For us now to turn our backs on their achievement, to dilute our applause with sanctimonious reprimands, to become a stern father to our own abused child would be to cry sour grapes at the success of our ends, but the failure of our means...
Castro Is No Exception. State Department officials recognize the inconsistency of the present doctrine and its sour aspects when applied to the likes of Castro. They maintain, however, that it works well with friendly countries, which voluntarily pay judgments against them. Says State Department Lawyer Carl Salano: "We believe that the U.S. should not deviate from adherence to domestic and international law just because certain other countries, such as Castro's Cuba, do so." But the doctrine appears ripe for further revision. Switzerland and Italy have dropped all immunity for certain types of commercial activity. Some State Department insiders...
...afternoon away at the soccer match; he can't stand concerts. Director Luciano Salce watches them so well, as they quarrel about money and friends and whether to go out or stay home, that even the familiar soap-opera material comes alive-the painful propinquity of two sour, seedy people sharing the bathroom in the morning, the wife-switchy tension that flickers beneath the surface as a bored foursome takes a Sunday drive...
...Haiti. The fact that nations do get cut off suggests that AID may not go on forever. That debilitating form of aid, direct injections into national budgets, has been mostly dropped, except for South Viet Nam, Korea, Laos, Jordan and the Congo. Military aid, once the source of sour jokes about dictators who "imported 5,000 Communists" to scare the U.S. into supplying arms, now goes mostly to eleven nations ringing the Russian-Chinese land mass. No aid at all goes to Communist nations any more...