Word: causticity
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Fresh Start. In obvious need of rewriting, anticlimactic after Becket's second-act death and sometimes weighed down by clogged and archaic language, Curtmantle is nonetheless aflash with the best of Fry. His Eleanor is a brightly caustic Queen, and his Henry is a rough King who could cry out that Becket's mouth "was making words like a purse farting," or, with mightiness, denounce "you lords of the Church Arrogant, like an old god crazy with his thunderbolts...
...Joan Hackett). It comes quickly to life in scenes that reveal the Negro badly bruised with race resentments, the girl rather sophomorically looking for an honest man, and the graduate student thinking that he is one in his bellowingly individualistic, care fully tailored misfit way. Their talk can be caustic, their clashes sharp, their belligerent defenselessness vivid. The play's best qualities are its avoiding a sermon ized tone for a bull-session one, among bull-session immaturities, and its trying to push beyond specific race problems to a basic human-race one. Its serious and growing weakness...
...admiral was rapid and steady. At sea he commanded the carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, later bossed Naval Forces Middle East, and finally spent six months in command of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. In all these jobs he tightened his reputation as a demanding skipper, an arrogant, caustic perfectionist who let his subordinates know exactly what he wanted, and who got just that. Ashore, his big break came when he went to work for Rear Admiral Arleigh Burke, then chief of the Navy's Strategic Plans Division. Burke was already under way toward his present job as Chief...
Religion--which, with its "caustic character," brought division in the world--now must bring about unity and a "radical transformation of human nature," the vice-President of India declared yesterday in Sanders Theatre...
...Entertainer. Some of the force of Playwright John Osborne's caustic metaphor, England as a seedy music hall in which no-talent frauds held the stage, may be lacking in the film version of his drama, but Sir Laurence Olivier's interpretation of a soggy song-and-dance man is a masterpiece of mannerism...