Word: sulking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal grand jury in New York City: a five-count indictment, four counts charging Philippe with evading a whopping $88,706 in income taxes in the years 1952-55, one charging that he knowingly concealed the receipt of "cash, currency or kickbacks" from Waldorf suppliers. Sunk in a continental sulk, Philippe issued a printed declaration of probity ("At the trial I confidently expect to establish my innocence "), then left for his $500,000 country estate near Peekskill-there to ponder, perhaps, the outrageous ways of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, which, in his case at least, wants something better than...
...often faces a flock of frustrations on his return to work. "Lots of men feel that being sent to college is like being told they're going to be vice president," says one executive. "When it doesn't happen to them, they're disappointed." Others sulk if management does not readily accept their new ideas. Moreover, some companies suspect that the popularity of executive training, especially at universities, does not grow from corporate need at all, but is merely a long-delayed reaction to the idea that the average businessman is just an uncultured boob...
Another disappointing performance is contributed by Susan Strasberg. Although the young actress is in the process of winning a large reputation for her work on Broadway, in the film she manages to do little more than sulk when she is called upon to portray a rather unattractive adolescent. Kim Novak's characterization as the girl who breaks her engagement has a somewhat greater depth and even a few touching moments. Yet her acting still does not match that of Rosalind Russel, who plays the part of a lonely schoolteacher. She appears both funny and pathetic when she all but swindles...
Sympathy, in fact, is something the new advance guard demands. Far from wishing to needle the bourgeoisie, as did the School-of-Paris moderns half a century ago, the young pioneers of American painting crave appreciation. When it is not forthcoming, some of them sulk and some shrug. But none of them seems to laugh. "To refashion the fashioned, lest it stiffen into iron, means an endless vital activity," they argue with Goethe. They solemnly reiterate that since impressionism, cubism and abstractionism have proved meaningful over the years, abstract expressionism will, too. And curiously enough, this wishful argument-by-analogy...
...Birr, had won a bitter primary fight over a candidate backed by G.O.P. Mayor Alex M. Clark, who is anti-Craig. Clark was nominally for Birr in the general election, but his heart was not in it. Democrat Phillip L. Bayt won by 16,000 votes. The defeated Birr sulked: "It is clear-cut evidence that you can sulk your way into socialism...