Word: archly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arch & Tricky. Neither present Times readers nor former Trib readers are likely to disagree, since Kerr is the most thoughtful of the daily reviewers. Never sidetracked by extraneous details, he writes a highly structured review. His leads are often small gems of summation. "After the Fall" he began, "resembles a confessional which Arthur Miller enters as a penitent and from which he emerges as the priest. It is a tricky quick change, sometimes an almost imperceptible one; but it constitutes neither an especially attractive nor especially persuasive performance...
...detects a sentimentality that seems to say the world is all wrong while the author is all right. While other critics gushed over the "lofty literacy" and "awesome depths" of Edward Albee's Tiny Alice two seasons ago, Kerr stuck to his standards. He found the play arch and pretentious: "The language becomes picky, tricky; at once rigid and self-indulgent, as though everything were being translated from some strangely euphuistic Latin...
...real fireworks began in the question period when the speakers dropped their polite facades and launched chauvanistic barbs at their arch foes. One could not help but feel that if these men truly represented the power of their countries, and if the forum were an international conference of great importance, that war would certainly have prevailed...
...Alphabet Murders. A funny thing happens to Tony Randall on his way out of a police station: he meets Margaret Rutherford on her way in. And Miss Rutherford's gag guest appearance as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple is the only thing that is funny about this arch and clumsy attempt to launch Randall as another celebrated Christie character, the Belgian snooper-sleuth Hercule Poirot...
Chicago's Mayor Dick Daley, some times known as "King Richard," could say last week with England's third mon arch of that name, as portrayed by Shakespeare...