Word: spoiling
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...quite all is pleasant in Kennedy's projected foreign aid Arcadia. A few familiar gnomes will still spoil the revels of economist-nymphs: tied ("Buy American") funds and too pronounced a preference for hard loans repayable only in dollars. Nor has the President entirely exorcised the most offensive ghoul of Eisenhower days, the irritating insistance that foreign nations ought to grow more the way American...
Gone with the wind is the struggle against slavery; here at last is the War that was actually a super-world-series. Everyone is urged to join the fun, and men like Senator Case of New Jersey should not try to spoil it by objecting that the Federal celebration is being held under segregated conditions...
...Tennessee Williams tromping around barefooted again in that same old Dixie cup." Dazed by an endless procession of indefatigable ants in Walt Disney's Secrets of Life, Ricketts wrote: "They know nothing but work, work, work and sex, sex, sex. Where they find the time to spoil picnics, we'll never know." Now and then, in rare moments of softness, the Ricketts hostility wanes: "We-we liked-liked...
...tell me the news," recalls Jackie's aunt, Maude Davis, "but she said, 'You can't say anything about it because the Saturday Evening Post is about to come out with an article on Jack called "The Senate's Gay Young Bachelor," and this would spoil it.' " Sniffs Aunt Michelle Bouvier Putnam: "The whole Kennedy clan is unperturbed by publicity. We feel differently about it. Their clan is totally united; ours...
Whether success will spoil off-Broadway or not, the downtown stage has seemingly relinquished its role of presenting experimental and original theater, and seems to be settling for a rehash of old material, plus a scattering of pseudo avant-garde plays. While this pattern has proven disappointing to those who still seek new blood and fresh ideas off-Broadway, it provides a comfortable combination of tried theatrical works (Strindberg, Ibsen, and Shaw most conspicuously), with thin, spicy plays designed to quench a respectable suburban thirst for Evil...