Word: crabbedness
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Most satisfying of the new items were Birthday Offering by Veteran Frederick Ashton and Solitaire by Kenneth MacMillan. Ashton whipped out his piece last year in honor of the company's 25th anniversary; it proved to be a sequined, dazzling showpiece for 14 soloists, and a convincing demonstration of...
The West's newest ally, West Germany, was making a most disagreeable impression on its friends last week. Chiefly responsible was crabbed, pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Schäffer. Schäffer was flatly unwilling to pay what Germany's NATO partners consider a fair share of...
* Moving the London Economist to remark: "It is sadly characteristic of the present state of the British public opinion that, when the Americans take just the sort of step towards moderation that their allies have so often asked of them, the only audible response in this country should be a...
Out last week was the resulting volume: Cracks in the Cloister (Sheed & Ward; $2.50). The anonymous author, who signs himself Brother Choleric, has never taken an hour's instruction in art, draws only for fun, and carries on the regular priestly duties of preaching and teaching. His characters in...
The Little Kidnappers. Youth and crabbed age try to live together on a Nova Scotia farm: a radiant fable about childhood (TIME, Sept. 6).