Word: grouchier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon Jimmy Carter would take hold of things. Now we are saying that pretty soon Jimmy Carter had damn well better take hold of things." Some Democratic congressional leaders in particular warn that they have just about given up on the President. Says one top congressional insider, gloomier and grouchier than most: "The possibility of rapport is gone. Like a bad marriage, it's just gone sour beyond repair." Dissatisfaction and discouragement are showing up even inside the White House, with key staffers complaining about the sloppy way the Administration is being...
...those things but wishes that a duck had dropped from the ceiling to stop him. Groucho cited the examples- and more- in court papers filed in his $15 million damage suit against Darien House Inc., publisher of The Marx Bros. Scrapbook ($13.95) for failing to sanitize some of his grouchier remarks. Last week Groucho lost the first round when New York State court refused to grant an injunction to stop distribution of the book...
...book's case against James seems the angriest and least clear. Anderson's debatable point is that as an arch-"imperial-self novelist" James made the artist more important than his real subject: life. Anderson gets even grouchier when dealing with his fellow critics, who have been "emotional collaborators" in all this madness. "It is a well-kept secret essential to understanding the cultural moment," he writes bitterly, "that those over thirty who are occupied with literature believe works of art to be more real than life...