Word: curmudgeon
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Naturally, Stone has been labeled a maverick, muckraker, Cassandra, curmudgeon, gadfly and guerrilla. All of which are pretty respectable terms these days. At 63, "I've graduated from being a pariah to a character," Stone says with a kind of inverse pride. "If I last long enough, I'll have a certain amount of credibility and weight." Politically, he considers himself to be just about what a leading adversary, Spiro Agnew, says he is: a well-ripened radic-lib. "I was a New Lefty before there was a New Left," he brags...
...take issue with Kinsolving's hit-and-run methods and his breathless appearances at press conferences to ask rambling, often antagonistic questions that are unrelated to the main lines of discussion. Despite such reservations, most of Kinsolving's colleagues accept, more or less, his role as ecclesiastical curmudgeon. And Cornell, whose weekly column competes with Kinsolving's, graciously allows that "there's some solid work behind what he does. He asks questions like a prosecuting attorney...
Nothing could have saved Anderson's platitudinous script, but Douglas makes an admirable try. He manages to transform a wholly unsympathetic curmudgeon into an object of reluctant but genuine sympathy. Without his seasoned wizardry, Father would be nothing more than matinee melodrama presented by your favorite bio-nondegradable detergent...
...Bunting, president of Philadelphia's First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co., says that he wears "the longest hair and widest ties of any banker I know." That is only one reason why he often discomforts conventional colleagues, many of whom rank him second only to Wright Patman, the congressional curmudgeon, as the man they like to dislike. Bunting, a 45-year-old Presbyterian, has publicly castigated other bankers for discriminating against Jews, and has talked of adding youths under 25, consumer crusaders and even militant feminists to First Pennsylvania's board. He has also introduced "Earth Bonds" to finance...
...easy to confuse beauty with goodness, but there is no law that says sound character is a requirement of great poetry. Nature has often endowed her poets in disturbing and mystifying ways. Take Robert Frost, for example -known to a vast public as the lovable old curmudgeon with the little horse and the harness bells. As this mercilessly detailed biography shows, Frost was jealous and vindictive, a malicious gossip and a petty schemer. The man who told the world he had promises to keep broke them frequently for gain or spite. The Years of Triumph is not a first crack...