Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honor and outrage of most of the officers in pressing her charges. In referring to Millington, Mrs. Hasseltine goes on to say, "He is the only gentleman I have met in all my years with this regiment." But he has not acted remotely like a gentleman, only like a sour, spoiled, self-indulgent brat. Besides, Mrs. Hasseltine is in the weakest position to raise any moral questions since it is she who has maligned an innocent man's character. Even as plot jockeying, this kind of dishonest playwriting does not pay, for the audience feels in the end that...
Shorris is inflexible on only one point: "Don't serve colas or other dark sodas with fish. The flavor of fish tends to sour them on the palate." Instead, he counsels, try ginger ale, Seven-Up or any other lemon-lime-base beverage...
There is a sour bit of irony in all this. Prolonged American involvement in Southeast Asia would cause a fairly significant strain on most of the U. S. body politic. But whatever the war does to the American people cannot be compared to the incredible level of suffering which it imposes on the Vietnamese. And yet it is only to the American people, not to the Vietnamese, that the American government has to be responsible; the Americans, not the Vietnamese, are the only ones who have an influence powerful enough to force the U. S. government from its aggressive practices...
...practice, however, the idea went sour. The convents-principally in Italy, Germany, France and Great Britain-did not actually "buy" the girls but did pay their expenses, often a flat fee of between $600 and $800 to cover transportation and warm clothing. The girls were supposed to be 18, have their high school diplomas (not difficult in Kerala, where education is free), and be trained in the language of their new country. In fact, many of the estimated 1,500 recruits were often younger (some were 15), did not have diplomas and spoke little more than Malayalam, the language...
...drinks a quart of Scotch a day and spends a lot of his time scheming to get his wife and his best friend's wife into bed with him at the same time. Maurice is a little short on charm, but any man with some of his phobias-sour white wines, sweet feminine conversations, more-secular-than-thou swinging clerics-can't be all bad. His pub, like many in England, has a legendary ghost, a 17th century scholar and necromancer who conjured a leafy monster to life in the backyard for purposes of terror and mayhem. Naturally...