Word: curmudgeon
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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...
...station promptly suspended him, next day was swamped by the greatest flood of mail and phone calls in its history. "We've never had such literate and highly abusive calls before," admitted bemused KCOP. Telegrams poured in, including one from Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, himself a curmudgeon of stature: "Have just canceled order for my 15th Philco. I don't need anybody either. But you are a good deed in a naughty world." Snorted Oscar himself: "My leaving Channel 13 is a catastrophe for the community. The channel will now revert to its cloacal status with such intellectual...
...recent sad decline of quality in the Herald Tribune, and his hopes for a return to its "old heritage." ¶ A well-pruned letters column in a freshened format that substitutes breeze for wind. ¶ "They Say" an occasional skimming of notable quotes in the news. ¶ "Curmudgeon's Corner" a space to be periodically opened to outraged or outrageous comment...
...Majesty of the Law, based on a short story by Frank O'Connor, is the tale of a village patriarch who suffers from an excess of pride. It is a feeling often easier to portray by word than to dissect on film. By the time the bearded old curmudgeon (well bellowed by Noel Purcell) presents himself at the local jail to do time for cudgeling an old enemy, the viewer has been made aware several times over that the old boy would rather cut off his beard than pay his ?5 fine-and wants to see and hear...
Self Condemned, by Wyndham Lewis, showed England's most effective literary curmudgeon banging away at the shoddy thinking and sloppy living by which contemporary man is surrounded...