Word: vitriolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prestige of their East German stooges and to label the West Germans as neo-Nazi warmongers. Although both East and West Germans had been admitted to the conference at separate tables only as "advisers," the Russians demanded that the speeches of Lothar Bolz, East Germany's pompous, vitriol-spewing Foreign Minister, be published as part of the official conference record. (Refusing, the conference secretariat noted that the question was one on which there was "permanent disagreement.") And at the week's first formal session, Gromyko, who was chairman, broke an implicit promise to let Secretary of State Christian...
What, asks Lewis, are Christians to make of such vitriol? In his provocatively chatty Reflections on the Psalms (Harcourt, Brace; $3.75), the wise and witty Oxford don argues that such embarrassments should not simply be ignored. Remembering that all Holy Scripture is "written for our learning" and that "Our Lord's mind and language were clearly steeped in the Psalter," Lewis prefers to make "some use" of the curses. One of their uses, he found, is to call attention to the same hatreds in modern man's own heart-"we are, after all, blood brothers to these ferocious...
...pleasant nonsense, and if Roosevelt had been present, he would have appreciated it. But not too many years later. Al was pouring verbal vitriol on an F.D.R. whom he had come to see as an enemy of U.S. institutions. Two recent books make this understandable, though neither one succeeds in really pinning down its man. The Happy Warrior, by Emily Smith Warner, is so obviously a daughter's accolade that one of the most colorful politicians in U.S. history can scarcely be seen through the swaddling layers of worshipfulness. Yet something of his genuineness, of his dedication...
...decadent painters. The Reluctant Yes. Grosz was saved from a concentration camp by an invitation to teach in Manhattan's Arts Students' League. Though he threw himself into his work, he soon disappointed his champion, vinegar-tongued U.S. painter John sloan, by going soft, burying his Germanic vitriol and trying to establish new roots as an illustrator. But as Grosz himself noted: "It is not easy to keep repeating yes, everything's fine." With The Pit, which Grosz identifies simply as "the story of my life," the big no sounded loud and clear again...
...back at the old stand, flinging accusations of softness toward Communism at his perennial favorites, Harvard and Nathan Pusey. This time, however, the attacks lacked some of their steam. Joe McCarthy was in a courtroom, not out on the hustings, and the atmosphere seems to have affected his vitriol...