Word: sweetener
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...hock to the revenooers, the "Say Hey" center fielder faced further depredations from his estranged wife Marghuerite (who indignantly denies Mays's charge that she "goes for $400 shoes and $8,000 mink coats"). Moaned Willie's attorney, who was fighting to un-sweeten Marghuerite's separation fee in a California court: "I hoped to be Willie's financial adviser, but it's turned out that I'm just a scorekeeper...
...world of scholarship, Gollwitzer was emerging as a man after Neutralist Barth's own heart, whether or not Basel's nervous municipal authorities, who have the final say, decide to swallow their unease. "Gollwitzer," said one Barthian, "is not out to support those who would like to sweeten their political coffee with the sugar of Western Christian culture...
...Advocate's conclusions are even more annoying (if possible) than its sticky old tangle of a prose style. Both reviewers insist that their writers discuss "the meaning of life" and maintain "a faith in man"--two mental gumdrops which never fail to sustain the mind and sweeten the soul of the incompent critic...
...country's first election. The plot is ingenious and very funny, but the great virtue of the piece lies in its marvelous prose. The narrator's naivete permits him to speak in wild, enthusiastic language, which sounds neither maudlin nor contrived: They crying no more blackman sweat to sweeten whiteman tea, no more for coolie to draw water to wash baccra foot. Sun come up to tell woman to tie her head and man to buckle his belt; to get ready to rule... The story is full of sun and bright colors and the narrator's simple diction makes...
...traced to the Federal Government: "Private slums are spreading through the rotting core of our big cities. Our private automobiles are stalled in traffic jams, while rapid public transportation, for lack of funds, lags 20 years behind. Public education flounders. The classroom shortage has not been met. To sweeten private life, our stores display a billion bottles of deodorant; yet a modest bill to reduce the stench from our polluted public rivers was vetoed. We have cared so much about 'conspicuous consumption' that our lives are cluttered with gadgets," while "switchblade delinquents haunt the public streets...