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Today once again everything in the paper seems like an artifact from my boyhood: Victor Borge getting the Kennedy Center national-cultural-treasure award (I know it's churlish to begrudge a 90-year-old man his prize ... but Victor Borge?), the putative excitement over IMAX movies (it's Cinerama circa 1959 all over again), ur-suburboid Procter & Gamble products in the news (Cheer, Crest, Ivory, Tide, Jif), Keith Richards and Eric Clapton and Stevie Nicks and Chrissie Hynde performing en masse on tour.
Kasparov made us all look churlish, bratty, and just plain bad.
On the one hand, it's churlish to suggest that Salinger should move just to protect himself from his public.
But the fact that McCain's integrity has been called into question made his aspersions against Bush's honesty look churlish.
Is it churlish to rebuff praise?