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"Squirrel Nutkin was a bitter, resentful recluse who secretly despised Twinkleberry and goaded Old Mr. Brown into violence, according to a collection of correspondence published by former lover Joyce Maynard."
Put differently, conservatives such as Bush were goaded into action by the obvious unfairness of a state-subsidized university system that more or less denies access to blacks and Hispanics.
Whereas we could get hotter and hotter under the collar about the ethics of displaying one man's collection of new art in a public institution, of public subsidy for art the public is goaded into hating, of how blasphemy has become an article of faith in an institutionalized avant garde, etc. etc.
, "Inmate Poker": Four inmates sit at a table in the ring, while a bull is goaded to charge them.
(In interviews, he said that his father remarked on the puniness of his Rocky physique, a dig that clearly goaded Stallone into pumping himself up, in all senses.)