Word: misanthropist
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...musician in Bonn-to lofty republican ideals. He was also a man tortured by a bad stomach and that most "terrible affliction" of a musician, deafness. The deafness left its mark early. At 31 he confided in letters to a friend: "I fled from men, had to appear a misanthropist, though I am far from being one ... I scarcely hear those who are speaking softly . . . and yet I cannot bear to be yelled...
Timon of Athens really delighted in his reputation as a misanthropist. And hurling stones at all and sundry he advanced his chest in classic pride at being thought a bater of man. But not all of us have that classic pride. So when hints come down Plympton Street that a certain criminal is also a misanthropist, a misogynist--indeed, a mistake. The Crime, Column shivers like a traffic cop, feels as unscrupulous as the Memorial Hall clock. For last week's salute, though not a salut d' amour was really not the expression of undying hate. One the contrary...
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