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...happy GOPsters heaved up from the table and packed their bags for the trip home, they heard some words of caution from caustic old author-politico Clarence Budington Kelland: "What this party's got to do is get in there and earn the victory it won at the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Victory Dinner | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

With its vivid characters and its caustic, angry tone, Another Part of the Forest is more than just gripping theater. Yet it is not quite large-sized drama. It builds powerfully, but to something not big enough. After such strong-willed people have been locked so long in conflict, there should be some kind of explosion from within themselves. Instead, melodrama is catapulted from without. A tricking-the-trickster that would be just right for rounding off a cold hard comedy about mere knaves is a little short-weight for people as generally base and passionate as they are specifically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Last night found the CRIMSON office swamped with caustic replies, both prose and poetry, from irate "tall, skinny types," and runner had it that a now club, "The Uneasy Ectos," has already entered its formative stages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slim-Bodied Undergraduate Look to Atlas As Ectomorphic Revolution Gains Momentum | 11/5/1946 | See Source »

...those with an eye for triangles and the more intricate geometrics d'amour so deftly contrived by the remorseless Noel. At the apex is the immoral Gary Essendine (Webb), whom Noel has attempted to bless with his own aphroditie charm, the eomic pace of Grouche Marx and the caustic sauciness of Woolcott. Perched giddily atop the crotic ding dong of assorted amours is a rare fruit who barely manages to sublimate his passion for Gary. This catalogue of irregular and illicit love left the bean monde opening nighters in a happy sweat. In less than two weeks the divertisement will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/16/1946 | See Source »

Fifteen years ago Novelist Aldous Huxley regaled British and American wits with a prophetic novel entitled Brave New World. In this caustic, chilly fantasy of a world-to-come (A.D. 2,500), babies were born in class-distinctive bottles, travel was in state-controlled helicopters, scientific absolutism was the universal rule. People swallowed a tabloid of happiness when they felt blue, worshiped a mechanistic god named "Our Ford," and believed that sexual fidelity was obscene. Faced with the alternatives of being Utopian or regressing into a squalid primitivism, the unhappy hero of Brave New World chose to hang himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New World Reconsidered | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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