Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Genesis has been deservedly forgotten; one volume was more than enough. But Schwartz lives in lines that soar and sting: "I am my father's father,/ You are your children's guilt." The funny and unforgiving stories of The World Is a Wedding (1948) remain some of the best work in a genre that has shown the world what it felt like in the Depression to be young, Jewish, and lost, somewhere between the Old Country and the New Criticism...
...sting came to light when Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev announced that the 1977 Soviet grain harvest would amount to 194 million metric tons-the lowest since 1975. That bland statistic caused tremors of shock through not only the U.S. Department of Agriculture but the Central Intelligence Agency as well. All summer long the Agriculture experts and the CIA operatives who try to keep track of conditions on Soviet farms had forecast a fat 215 million-ton harvest, indicating that Moscow would not need to buy much foreign grain this year. But the bulletin from Brezhnev meant precisely the opposite...
...were U.S. officials caught by surprise? The sting seems to have been the result of a combination of Soviet duplicity and U.S. gullibility...
...later, a Uruguayan newspaperman called the Jockey Club steward at Belmont and told him that the horse in the winner's circle photograph was not Lebón but Cinzano, Uruguay's 1976 Horse of the Year. That brought Gerard under suspicion of engineering a horse-swapping "sting...
Embargoes may sting, but they may not really hurt...