Word: curtly
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That Roth is gone. This isn't even the lyrical late Roth of American Pastoral. Indignation is the work of the late-late Roth, the Roth of bitter, bitten-off miniatures like Everyman and Exit Ghost: curt, tetchy, unhumorous. But this post-Roth Roth does have something to say to the Roth who wrote Portnoy 40 years...
...that day, stay away, because you didn't want to be around him. George Washington spent a lifetime trying to control his temper, not always successfully. Eisenhower probably did a more successful job, but that's not public ... On a brown-suit day, he was irritable. He could be curt, but ... most of the time, [he was] much more politically sophisticated than he wanted the public or the press to believe...
...Curt Olson, editorial page editor at the Willoughby News-Herald, says "there's been a lot of negativity about the rescue. People have all been saying, 'Let 'em suffer.' " Personally, he says, "there's a side of me that agrees with the populist feeling that this is something that Wall Street created with their exotic financial instruments, and if it was a businessman here in Willoughby who tried to do something cute and it blew up in his or her face, they would be stuck with a bankrupt company. On the other hand, we have companies here, Steris, Lincoln Electric...
...transcript, Palin's attempt at defining the Bush Doctrine was "His worldview." On the screen, it was "His worldview?" - with a hint of a challenge in it.) She injected "Charlie" into her answers constantly, as if trying to draw him in; he kept a distanced and almost curt manner, following up briskly and often. After a few follow-ups to his question on whether the U.S. had the right to invade Pakistan to pursue terrorist leaders, he asked bluntly, "I got lost in a blizzard of words there. Is that...
Maybe that means Palin is a little too much Northern Exposure for America - after all, her father's good friend Curt Menard happily showed me a picture of the governor as a high schooler in 1981, in a root cellar with family and friends, helping skin and cube and cure a whole moose. It's enough to make you almost miss fake hunters like John Kerry and Mitt Romney...