Word: sours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Landau has not tried to present a tragedy. All the editors and commentators who place Troilus among the tragedies clearly have no idea what tragedy really is. Troilus is comedy, but very sour comedy. Kenneth Tynan recently seconded Orson Welles' view that Shakespeare was suffering from venereal disease during the period in which he wrote Hamiet, Troilus, and Measure for Measure. Such hypothesizing is dangerous; for that way madness lies. Yet it is true that these plays all present sexual relations as vile and tainted...
...seamstress and settled down in an apartment on the Quai d'Anjou. There, in a bare attic studio, using crayons until they were so worn that he could no longer hold them, and whistling the latest music-hall tunes, Daumier turned out lithographs of arrogant aristocrats, greedy landlords, sour-faced men and nagging wives, sinister lawyers and pompous judges. In one scene, a judge says to a half-starved prisoner: "So you were hungry; that's no reason for stealing. I'm hungry too-nearly every day. But I don't steal...
...disquieting to learn that the United States may begin playing the space game on a "sour grapes" basis, deciding which events to enter and how hard to run by the opponent's strength and by how good the whole thing will look to the crowd. Whether the new emphasis on the public impact of the space program will be constructively integrated into the whole program, or whether valid scientific goals will be thrown to the propaganda winds, is the question that faces Kennedy. There are several pieces of evidence as to which course he will take...
...Kennedy is searching for new areas in which to pioneer, he must not forget to take advantage of those areas that are already successful parts of the space program. Instead of playing sour grapes over the man-in-space, he could, for example, make great political capital from the development of a satellite system that would bring inexpensive space telecommunications to the underdeveloped nations...
...middle class and upper middlebrow. He is 34, she is 27, and their only sadness is a slightly self-conscious chagrin at not having had a child. The France they visit in 1948 is still digging its way out of rubble and through ration books, still bitterly preoccupied with sour memories of the war and occupation years. The Rhodeses are the kind of Americans who think them selves a cut above Americans, other American tourists at any rate. To get beyond the brief cultural encounters of hotels, museums and sightseeing tours, they arrange to spend two weeks at the Chateau...