Word: sullenness
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...Civil War. Increasingly, audiences have confused the reportage and analysis provided by newsmen with the events themselves, mistaking the messenger for the message. Post Publisher Katharine Graham quotes Shakespeare: "Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office, and his tongue sounds ever after as a sullen bell...
...subject. Scott-Stokes never sensationalizes -Mishima did that for himself-but in addition to his literate examination of the man's work, he surmises that the famous death scene was part of a double love-suicide, a shinju, involving Mishima and Masakatsu Morita, a sullen young leader of Mishima's private army who killed himself at the same time...
When Harry attempts to articulate a thought, he chokes on it like a fish bone. But he finally blurts out his heart's desire. He wants to marry Gert and have kids. This puts Gert into a sullen, belligerent funk. She laughs at Harry. He cannot bear to be laughed at. She can not bear to be wanted, needed and loved...
...imagines that a couple hatefully married for 25 years, rather than bludgeoning each other with such sullen insults, would have developed between them an immense repertory of malice, of silences and nuance. And surely, as in this play's descendant, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the couple would know precisely where to strike to draw blood. As it is, Alice simply calls Edward a "miserable old wart hog" and a "fiend," as if she had long since despaired of finding anything more imaginative to say. The Dance, at last, is little more than a gray and rather...
...rest is familiar history. Engels used his capitalist lucre to support the firm of Marx & Engels, tireless designers of revolutions, tailors of socialist theory, collaborators on scholarly books and pamphlets, including a long-term bestseller called The Communist Manifesto. The sullen, tobacco-stained genius Karl Marx and the buoyant, optimistic and modest Engels combined to make one of the most influential partnerships of all time. Marx supplied the creative thought, and Engels produced the human evidence, provided the money, and cleaned up Marx's turgid prose for the world to read. Although he was hesitant to admit it, Engels...