Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anecdotal style, Miss Mitford draws a harsh picture of unscrupulous undertakers, victimizing simple, grief-confused Americans. She points out the petty racketeering, shady legislation, and help from newspapers and florists which contribute to the situation. Her essential approach is economic; she tends to feel that for Americans, death's sting is mainly transmitted through the pocketbook. Her arguments are phrased in dollars and cents, and her case, though effectively put, is peculiarly lopsided...
...nothing in either Berlin could quite compare with the Komische Oper, perhaps the world's best lyric opera company and East Berlin's finest cultural ornament. In an atmosphere where the culture bullets really sting, the East's operatic triumph had one touch of irony: Walter Felsenstein, the Komische Oper's founder and director, is an Austrian who lives in West Berlin...
...exploding with youth and health. Instead of ugliness, he drew and painted lyrical pictures of Cape Cod. Edmund Wilson recalls how fascinated Grosz was by the idealized life pictured in American ads showing handsome young people with every material blessing. The scourge of Berlin, it seemed, had lost his sting, and "the stock thing to say about him," says Wilson, "was that he was no longer so interesting...
...combined gross national products of Canada and Australia, and more "profits in his cash register" as well. For the taxpayer, there would be enough extra money "to pay the installments on a car, or dishwasher, or some other necessary expense."* The bill would ease unemployment, take the sting out of automation, help eliminate juvenile delinquency and racial injustice and provide "insurance against recession...
...playwright during the Great Depression (Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing), later a highly paid writer of slick movie scripts . (Sweet Smell of Success); of cancer; in Los Angeles. The contrast between Odets' early proletarian dramas and his Hollywood work inspired the celebrated jab, "Odets, where is thy sting...