Word: caustically
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...from injuries suffered when he was struck by a bicycle; in Manhattan. Kraft wrote his first play at 33, later collaborated with Theodore Dreiser on the screenplay for An American Tragedy and became a journeyman playwright of comedies and musicals, among them Café Crown and Top Banana, a caustic, dizzy homage to comedy that Phil Silvers made into...
...Joan is casually approachable in precisely this way. What Galloway does not project is any hint of spirituality or vulnerability. Perhaps the din of forensic rhetoric that dominates this production prevents her from hearing any inner voices. Tom Kneebone makes of the Dauphin a mixture of skittish cravenness and caustic venom, while William Needles' inquisitor is magisterially forbidding. The rest of the cast act like shrill contenders in a debating contest, but that may stem in part from George Bernard Shaw the street-corner agitator...
...George Meany last week took firm command of the annual assembly of the nation's labor chieftains at the elegant resort town of Bal Harbour, Fla. When he was through, Meany had displayed his consummate mastery of the labor movement and strengthened his position as perhaps the most caustic and telling critic of President Ford's economic policies. Pointing a stubby finger of alarm, Meany warned that unless someone did something and did it fast, the American nation could once again experience what he referred to-and vividly remembered-as the "Great Depression...
...that of all Benton's outstanding works, Hughes deems it fit to mention only The Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley because it contains a portrait of ex-Pupil Jackson Pollock. Apparently Mr. Hughes is still smarting from the sting of Benton's caustic rejection of much of so-called modern art. Is he also among those seeking revenge...
...that people want to apply to Rockefeller had been applied to the founding fathers." Firm in his answers but not overbearing, waving, winking and even blowing kisses at old friends, Rockefeller had plainly made some new friends in the course of his performance. Said the committee's most caustic member, Texas Representative Jack Brooks: "I think you may be overtrained for the job." Alabama Democrat Walter Flowers was pleasantly reassured. "The guy's got style...