Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is offensive, we must bear in mind that it is both the price and the benefit of a democratic culture. It is the sting and the pleasure of a society in which art is allowed the function of social commentary. And as a performer, Mr. Seeger has an adroit way of putting an audience at ease about his politics. "I used to send my children to sleep by singing them lullabies," he said jokingly, "but when they reached the age of three, they discovered that lullabies were parents' propaganda...
...Jack the Shot," as he is known by color-seeking sports-writers and by defeated rivals who have known the Sting of arrived jump not the Crusaders' only offensive thread...
...against the formal nudes and innocuous landscapes that dominated turn-of-the-century U.S. art. Outraged by his fantasy, critics inveighed against Prendergast's paintings as "whirling arabesques that tax the eye." "unadulterated slop," and "the product of much cider drunk at Saint-Malo." If Prendergast felt the sting, he left no record of it. His brush became still looser, his rhythms more intricate, his outlines so subtle that his paintings almost began to look as if they had been woven. But for all their technical innovations, his works con tinued to reflect a childlike world eternally at play...
Good, for a Change. Despite the disagreement, the week's business news-for a change-was encouraging. The Commerce Department reported that manufacturers' new orders in August rose 2% over July, ending a two-month decline and taking the sting out of a decline in manufacturers' sales for the sixth straight month. Machine-tool orders soared 32% over July for the best rise of the year, partly because of pending price increases of from 4% to 10%. Construction put in place in September continued to move upward. Department-store sales snapped back from a three-week decline...
...continent where complex constitutional problems breed and sting like mosquitoes, no place has a more complex problem than Nyasaland. A British protectorate, Nyasaland is a stringbean sliver of hills whose 2,720,000 African inhabitants are desperately determined to dissolve their homeland's 1953 forced merger with the two Rhodesias into the white-dominated Central African Federation. Fortnight ago, when delegates from Nyasaland and Britain sat down in London's ornate Lancaster House to debate a new deal for the little land, experts predicted failure. Peppery little Dr. Hastings Banda, idol of Nyasaland blacks, had threatened to walk...