The play begins with Malcom shouting and shoving Hester, livid that he's been sleeping with his wife, Dorothy.

He was livid, and I still remember how we cried when that cart with our half eaten sweets was pulled away from us.

Europe s malaise, and the resulting rise of populist politics, suggests that Asia s governments can ill afford to sit on their growth laurels. Indeed, they should heed a recent comment by Oxford University s Pavlos Eleftheriadis about a Greek electorate livid at being led by those who dishonestly caused the problem.

Given these new strains, it is worth recalling that a only few months ago many American leaders were livid at what they perceived to be Turkey s betrayal. In their view, Turkey had re oriented its foreign policy toward the Muslim Middle East and away from the West a shift supposedly reflected in the country s deteriorating relations with Israel and improving ties with Iran and Syria.