Word: tantruming
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...weeks of her life at the Kellers' home in 1887. Helen was not far from being a willful little animal because no way had been found to bring her into meaningful association with others. As Helen, eleven-year-old Patty McCormack brought to the play many of the tantrum qualities that won praise for her part in the hit play and movie, The Bad Seed. As superlatively played by Teresa Wright, Annie was a no-nonsense teacher who refused to turn the other cheek. She fulminated against her charge ("pigheaded little jackass"), even slapped her occasionally...
...grows and people today are less scared, he claims. They are now better aware that they have been more scared than they ought to have been. "My great confidence in the American people, in their love of liberty and their good sense, makes me believe that their fits of tantrum about disloyalty among out fellow-citizens will end long before 1970," states Chafee in his forthcoming book, The Blessings of Liberty. "The blessings of liberty, though weakened, are ours if we want them, to hold and make strong. The flag still flies, and the city has not yet fallen...
Women with the talent for raising the tantrum to an art form and the conniption fit to a way of life seem to work terrible powers of posthumous hypnosis upon their biographers...
...Literature, the experience was a shock - but the shock was not limited to the magazine. In 1936 a scrappy, pug-nosed man from Utah took over as editor. His name, Bernard DeVoto, soon became a synonym for the atrabilious type of crusader who seems perpetually to be throwing a tantrum. Sinclair Lewis, one of his early targets, called him "a tedious and egotistical fool . . . a pompous and boresome liar." "What," asked Critic Edmund Wilson, "is Mr. DeVoto's real grievance . . . this continual boiling up about other people's wild statements which stimulates him to even wilder statements...
...character is mostly sweetness and light. Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortileges (soloists, chorus and Suisse Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). Collette's enchanting ballet-opera about an enchanted child, which Ravel reluctantly finished in 1925 after years of procrastination. The child is throwing a tantrum when the magic begins: the armchair (bass), clock (baritone), teapot (tenor), fire (coloratura soprano) come to life to terrify him into better behavior. Despite its size, the orchestra twiddles and tweaks lightly, and the tunes are often as naive as The King and I. Performance: a knockout. Von Weber: Four...