Word: fogeyish
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...White’s novel about King Arthur, The Once and Future King, into a musical. “You must be crazy,” Loewe replied, “That king was a cuckold.” (A “cuckhold” is a fogeyish term for an adulteress’s husband.) Arthur had lost his wife, Guenevere, to his best friend, Lancelot. “Who the hell cares about a cuckold?” Loewe asked...
...problem is that the arguments he advances, though trenchant, aren’t new. You’ve heard them all before, probably from one of your fogeyish high school teachers. If you weren’t paying attention then, there’s little chance you’ll tune...
...pause, in my fogeyish what?s-the-matter-with-kids-today rant, to wonder why they should be any more tolerant of the music I loved than I am of the music they love. Then I put aside doubt and snarl: because mine?s better! And if I remind myself that songs of the 60s are as distant from today?s kids as songs of the teens and 20s were to me... well, I have an answer for that, too. I liked those old songs! It?s simple courtesy for them to give a tolerant listen to the music...
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