Word: witheringly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Walter can usually wither the untoward with a cold stare through his steel- rimmed spectacles, though sometimes it is necessary to bark a few brusque commands in order to send it scurrying. India, on the other hand, has a more coquettish relationship with it: she takes painting classes, flirts momentarily with divorce, psychoanalysis and the ideas of Thorstein Veblen. But whether the Bridges are confronting a tornado that Walter refuses to let interrupt dinner, their children's romantic and sexual hubbubs, a friend's suicide or simply the long silences of their own relationship, there is never any question about...
...What's in my name to you? It will wither out, like a sad sound." That line from Pushkin might describe how some members of the legislature of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics feel about . . . well, about the name Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Supreme Soviet is debating whether the country ought to get a new name once the proposed treaty of confederation among the 15 constituent republics of the U.S.S.R. is approved. Three suggestions: Union of Sovereign Socialist States (U.S.S.S.), put forth by none other than Mikhail Gorbachev; Union of Euro-Asian Republics, a coinage...
...means to the national psyche, to individuals' sense of themselves and their nation -- their idea of what it is to be American. People of color have often felt that whites treated equality as a benevolence granted to minorities rather than as an inherent natural right. Surely that condescension will wither...