Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...with equally damaging results, according to Brandeis Sociologist Philip Slater. The child soon recognizes that he is the center of an extraordinary effort and that his happiness is a matter of great stakes. He will seldom turn out exactly as planned, and when family dissension ensues, the mother will resent her "sacrifices." Moreover, though she may have brought up her child to be "more cultured, less moneygrubbing, more spontaneous and creative" than she herself was brought up to be, she is nevertheless upset when he then refuses to remain on the same treadmill as his parents...
...derivative panache is make Jefferson a lot more angry than he was on the stage. And he achieves this simply by intelligent use of what has become a hackneyed editing cover-up-the reaction shot. James Earl Jones knows what Johnson was all about; if the boxer learned to resent most white men, he also pitied his black mammy and scorned the life she led. Ritt plugged in Jones' knowing smirk enough times to keep me some-what interested in the overheated proceedings...
preserve their way of life. Many resent the government's massive purchase of private forests. One old man complained that his son could not find a job in Greece because he had gone to a foreign university...
...recognition of China would improve Washington's standing, especially among Third World nations which resent its campaigning to consign China to a kind of outcast status...
Doyle is a low-key athlete. He has no admiration for high-powered athlete programs of high-powered athletes. He was not recruited, and he went out for football because "it seemed like a good thing to do at the time," Unlike some Harvard athletes who resent the fairly de-emphasized approach to athletics that Harvard takes, Doyle appreciates Harvard's attitude...