Word: causticity
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While Schlesinger's reputation as a political writer and a scholar has increased, the myth about his arrogance has also grown. This myth originates not so much from any personal conceit, but from his intense identification with liberalism. In informal discussions of current issues like segregation, he becomes caustic and impatient in defense of militant liberalism. "Why should the under-dog be patient while he gets kicked in the teeth?" he demands. "We don't need caution so much as sound reasoning and the courage to apply it." This impatience with conservatism appears brash to critics who hear him debate...
...caustic treatment received by the Senator at the hands of Kamin's attorneys last fall, and Judge Aldrich's ruling that McCarthy had clearly overstepped the legal authority of the Government Operations Committee he headed in 1953-54, have already been discussed at length in this newspaper. What has not been discussed, since it only appears through re-reading Aldrich's decision, is that the Judge chose to believe McCarthy on small points and completely disagreed with him on large ones...
...Resistance leader, because they could not believe he had the requisite tough qualities. Last week this deceptively mild ex-high-school teacher of English stirred up an international commotion by challenging the foundations of Western policy and criticizing France's allies (particularly the U.S.) in terms more caustic than any other French Premier has used since the days of Charles de Gaulle...
...William got mad at Garry Moore: "I was watching I've Got a Secret one night, and the man's secret was that his great-grandfather had constructed the first U.S. bathtub. I said to my mother that the man was mistaken." Bill wrote Garry Moore a caustic letter pointing out that all his facts about the first bathtub were based on a famed newspaper hoax written in 1917 by H. L. Mencken. Garry Moore never answered...
...first real campaign speech for the 1956 elections, Adlai Stevenson last week was crisp, caustic and effective. He had an ideal backdrop for his speech: Duluth, where Senator Hubert Humphrey's strongly pro-Stevenson Minnesotans cheered him to the echo. Some 900 Democrats slushed through the season's first snow to the National Guard Armory and cheerfully paid $10 a plate for roast beef and 50? for badges saying, "I'm still madly for Adlai." A jazz band played It's a Sin to Tell a Lie (also known as Be Sure It's True...