Word: spleening
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...play nicely balances its blunderer from an age of chivalry against the more practical citizenry of an age of compromise. It is an altogether Anouilhan balance, in that it finds much to be said against both sides. But where Anouilh, a worldly observer with both heart and spleen, shows a certain contempt for the riders of bandwagons, he mocks his knight with compassion. And where, in earlier and bitterer mood, Anouilh set his version of Moliere's surly misanthrope against a too complaisant world, his hero in The Fighting Cock comes closer to Cervantes' cracked...
...near and whipped out a .45 pistol. As the Prime Minister cried out his wife's name, "Sirima! Sirima!" his assailant fired again and again. By the time a sentry brought the assassin down with a wound in the thigh, four bullets had pierced Banda's liver, spleen and large intestine. Next morning, after a five-hour operation, Solomon Bandaranaike died...
...opening day the mob gathered outside the State Capitol. Faubus was on hand to greet it. Smoothly covering himself against a charge of inciting riot, he poured his spleen on Gene Smith and Little Rock's cops. "I see no reason for you to be beaten over the head today, or to be jailed," said Faubus. "That should be faced only as a last resort, and when there is much to be gained." Having nonetheless whipped the crowd to a rage, Faubus went back to his office-and the mob started down 14th Street...
Enraged, Hoffa bristled into Boston last week to exhort Local 25 and excoriate the press. With a glare at reporters, Hoffa roared that the press's spleen might well stem from the fact that in some communities his drivers make more than newsmen. Cried he: "My responsibility is far and beyond some cartoonists or editorial writers, who want to display their high school skills to embarrass you and possibly put you in prison...
...York Daily News larded its stories so lavishly with sarcasm ("The Deputy Premier showed a capitalistic-type interest in Macy's varied wares-and didn't steal a thing") that the reader was invited only to sympathize with the victim. The Chicago American vented its spleen in a front-page box: "Everyone is asking, 'Who sent for him?' " For the most part, the press attempted to balance its Mikoyan account with sound editorials and sharp cartoons. But even on the editorial pages, there were some solos of Mikoyan praise. "If all Soviet officials were always...