Word: curmudgeon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five years, Washington's International Cooperation Administration has poured $80 million into Guatemala, built eight agricultural-experiment stations, three agrarian-resettlement projects, miles of roads, including the Atlantic highway. But it has not pleased Clemente Marroquin Rojas, 62, last year's Vice President and now Agriculture Minister. Curmudgeon Marroquin Rojas, terrible-tempered owner-editor-publisher of the daily La Hora, holds nothing sacred. He has attacked his own boss, President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes ("General, watch yourself"), and the Roman Catholic Church ("greedy"). Recently, he took a pitchfork to the ICA. He complained that in ICA projects, "gringos...
...Hellenistic literary discovery since the Renaissance, crows Horizon about an exclusive story in its July issue. Readers with a classical bent or those who merely like a yarn about the farmer's daughter are unlikely to argue. The story is the first English translation in poetry of The Curmudgeon (Greek: ∆σνκολς), written in 316 B.C. by the Greek Playwright Menander, whose 100-odd comedies were outranked in the ancient world only by those of Aristophanes. Out of Egypt. Even more intriguing. The Curmudgeon is the first complete play by Menander discovered...
Down the Well. Written when he was 25., The Curmudgeon is minor compared to the later shrewd comedies that inspired (by way of plagiarisms by Plautus) European playwrights from Racine to Giraudoux...
Tireless Name-Dropper Elsa Maxwell, reporting for the Hearstpapers her latest encounters with the well-known, recorded some brief banter with a sly curmudgeon of old. "I once asked Bernard Shaw which was his favorite Shakespearean comedy," wrote Elsa, "and he replied. 'Othello.' 'But Othello is not a comedy,' I told him. 'It's a tragedy.' Mr. Shaw quipped, 'Any play whose plot hangs on a lady's handkerchief must be a comedy...
Although the Soviets inserted in their scientific delegation Semyon K. Tsarapkin, a professional cold-war curmudgeon and former Soviet United Nations delegate with a reputation for tirades against the West, the first private sessions were encouraging-not for the agreements reached but for the politics avoided. The delegates started exchanging papers that covered such "secret" ground that it was decided that not even their titles could be disclosed...