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In Newsweek , the usually grumpy Harold Bloom called it "charming"; Clemson University's James Andreas enthused, "Shakespeare was a pop phenomenon in his own age.
Baker has read tired and grumpy of late, but his best columns have always been wonderful correctives to everybody else's.
Resentment is narrated, like Another City , by a grumpy writer who lives at the Chateau Marmont hotel; at the same time, Dunne himself appears as a character, as a columnist-novelist named Fawbus Kennedy who is variously called "the kind of nothing this culture has been moving toward for decades," a "third-rate middlebrow Depends ad," and a "pompous mediocrity of a type unprecedented and decidedly unwelcome in this kind of grave proceeding."
I guess the lesson that is to be learned from the Times article you mention on Page A12 is that if you're going to get involved negotiating with Nazi-era slaves, you're just going to have to expect them to be a little grumpy and that is all there is to it.
However, in my current grumpy and groggy state, I'm in absolutely no mood to discuss political correctness.