Word: orneryness
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The Museum of Modern Art has bound all of Steichen's choices in a LiFE-size catalogue, on sale at the museum for $1, and has let Steichen sum it up thus: "An historical procession where wisdom and nonsense, the ornery and the holy, the poisons of hate and...
Like Hoppy himself, Smoky Callaway becomes a TV craze on the strength of his ancient horse operas. Unlike Hoppy, Smoky in real life is an ornery cuss-a chippie-chasing roisterer on a steady diet of alcohol. What is worse, from the standpoint of Hucksters Fred MacMurray and Dorothy McGuire...
The Ornery Wife. "It's tough," complains the wife of a 35-year-old plant manager. "You have to leave behind your old friends. You have to weigh the people you invite to parties. You have to be careful of who you send Christmas cards to and who you...
Even though the wives seem to thrive on it, some still yearn for the day when "everyone could just get together in a sort of secret cartel on ambition." FORTUNE itself puts in a plug for the "ornery wife," thinks the "integration" has gone too far. "Conformity," says an editorial...
But I'm getting a lot from classes too. For example, there's a prof named Fritz Roethlisberger who teaches Human Relations. That means how to get an ornery cuss to do something your way instead of his.