Word: crabbedness
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Students who showed up last week for the previously announced band concert at Syracuse University's Grouse Hall were in for a jolt. The band had been canceled, and in its place was a performance with two pianos that were out of tune with each other, a soprano who...
His youthful reputation as a scandalous womanizer (deserved) and as a financial charlatan (undeserved) haunted his career. All his life he was candid to the point of impudence and imprudence and maintained a totally un-Victorian intolerance of humbug and hypocrisy. His pen dripped venom. He once endowed an opponent...
The comparison is about the nastiest accusation ever leveled against Adams, an urbane and skeptical politician who, for all his impatience with his contemporaries, respected their right to differ with him-most notably in his gallant defense of British soldiers after the Boston Massacre. Robespierre, by contrast, labored under a...
The publishers confidently believe that another wave of what has been called the Salinger generation will be a solid market for the last two Glass stories in hardcover at $4, both having appeared in The New Yorker, in 1955 and 1959 respectively. Outside the campus, there are signs that crabbed...
Bennett the elder was a crabbed Scot who founded the Herald in 1827. The newspapers of the time were timid and dull, sycophants to power, lively only when used by their editors for inter-paper squabbling. Bennett, armed with the heretical notion that a newspaper should be "impudent and intrusive...