Word: curmudgeonly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Spiro Agnew, the Administration's house curmudgeon, opened his office to newsmen and television cameras, beaming broadly as he gave his blessing to products meant to spoof him-Spiro Agnew T shirts, Spiro Agnew watches modeled on the Mickey Mouse design (TIME, July 6). Instead of fuming, Agnew co-opted the satire: advance payments and royalties from the manufacturers will go to a charity supporting American Indian children and to an organization of families of American servicemen taken prisoner or missing in Southeast Asia. "The real reason I'm here," Agnew joked on the Tonight Show, "is that...