Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FIRST SIDE closes with a statement of what an entertainer has to do to please his audience. The idea of "topping the last performance" becomes so taxing to the performer's imagination that in the end he is left to the mercy of the crowd. Anderson's retort to the critics is made obvious by his allusions to Passion Play, while the carnival-like refrains imply the capriciousness of a crowd that determines the musician's fate...
...author of the first three books seemed to be. The younger Anais was constantly evolving; now her world fluctuates, but her attitudes keep stable. The feverish pace to her life and record has gentled; still, its intrigue remains intact. The whole picture puts an ironic twist on the retort of an indignant reporter when Anais hauled her diaries out of a fire: "Hey, lady, next time could you bring out something more important than all those old papers? Carry some clothes on the next trip. We gotta have some human interest in these pictures...
...worst form of inequality, Aristotle argued, is to try to make unequal things equal. He held instead that "equals ought to have equality" and recalled the retort of the lions, in the fable of Antisthenes, when in the council of the beasts the hares began haranguing for equality for all. "Where," asked the lions, "are your claws and teeth?" Still, more than claws and teeth are presumed to be estimable in civilized society. This is why the undue emphasis on economic inequality in American life, which puts such a premium on acquisitiveness, is an erratic measure of individual worth...
...fact that they were going to be short of gasoline by this year?" Roberts asks. "The answer is absolutely yes. Those companies have good economists, and they had to have known that some time in 1973 they would bump up against the restraints of their refining capacity." Oilmen retort that until recently they could not get high enough prices for their products to make new refineries yield an adequate return on investment...
That gave Agnew a chance to retort but instead, speaking at a Republican fund raiser in Chicago, the Vice President sought to ease the tension that was damaging the party by calling Nixon "a great President," and saying: "Thank God we have a man who has faced some of the most unbelievable pressures and handled them...