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...plan of earlier this year, which sliced a mere 1% from federal spending and 5% from the deficit. Forbes isn't asking citizens to give up anything to solve a collective problem. He leaves that to rivals like Dole, whose more responsible approach earns them the Forbes sobriquet "dour sourpuss...
Above all, Forbes is the smiling face in a dour Republican race, an economic optimist using sunny, supply-side theory to brighten up what he describes as the "sourpuss views" of his Republican rivals. Yet for all his patrician good humor, Forbes' message and his campaign have begun to show a hard edge...
...Andrei Gromyko, the perennial sourpuss of Soviet diplomacy, used to say when reacting to peaceful rhetoric from the West, "One must distinguish between words and deeds." That advice has always applied particularly to the U.S.S.R. Soviet foreign policy has been marked by tactical retreats and no- more-Mr.-Tough-Guy public relations campaigns before. In 1919 Vladimir Lenin cautioned his Foreign Minister, Georgi Chicherin, who was preparing to address an international conference in Genoa, "Never mind the hard language." Lenin pursued conciliatory policies toward Poland and the then independent Baltic states. By the 1940s, those nations had all been brutally...
What do you do if you like this stuff less than most people? The usual view is that only an inhibited, snobbish sourpuss could fail to take delight in a Grooms show. And what, the Grooms fan will say, do you have against humor? The fan has a point, in a way, since Grooms' popularity comes at least in part from the truly awful seriousness of the high-culture industry, its inability to see how weird its own solipsism and sanctimony can look. The mock-religious cloud that formed around abstract expressionism when it was becoming America's first imperial...
Ralph: Be of good cheer, Wanda. Your doting husband understands and accepts your ideological commitment to grimness. But surely even a fearless feminist needn't be a sourpuss in the privacy of her own home. Now how about a nice industrial-strength smile? I can assure you that the Bureau of Feminist Rectitude will never hear about it from...