Word: tyrant
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...Antony and Cleopatra was a disappointment, the new house, this exceptional season, and your delightfully written cover story are not. You have successfully retired the cliche that Bing is a stuffy, humorless, inept Austrian tyrant and given us a wi. ty. dedicated, and exceptionally talented human being...
...found in the nosy neighborliness of the community a substitute for the lost context of rooted families left be hind in the home town. "Outgoing" was a term of approbation, and somebody who kept to himself or put up a fence was distrusted. Says Whyte: "The group is a tyrant; so also is it a friend, and it is both at once...
Worms like Sticky Pearls. Outwardly, Sylvia's psychosis has standard Freudian trimmings. Her father, born in the Polish town of Grabow in East Prussia, became a professor of entomology at Boston University and is presented in her poetry as an intellectual tyrant with "a love of the rack and the screw." The mother of the heroine in The Bell Jar, an autobiographical novel published in England just before Sylvia's death, is described as a metallic New England schoolmarm. Little Sylvia tried to be Daddy's darling. At three she knew the Latin names of hundreds...
...Premier, the intended escape is from oblivion. An aged ex-Premier of France, part petty household tyrant, part national monument, lives in impatient retirement, awaiting his chance to settle old scores and topple old foes. When he discovers that his servants are all government spies, that his secret papers are no longer secret, and that his power is nil, he decides that since he has been politically dead for years, he may as well relax and die physically...
...Shockingly Distorted." Headed by Louisiana Democrat F. Edward Hebert, a hard-knuckled investigative veteran, the subcommittee accused McNamara of being a Pentagon tyrant who uses the word "we" in his testimony only "to hide the essential singularity of the decision-making process in the Department of Defense." Said the report: "The subcommittee was shocked to dis cover that the proposal to phase out of the SAC inventory all B58 aircraft was, as best it could ascertain, an action solely recommended and supported by the office of the Secretary of Defense and one neither recommended nor truly supported...