Word: causticity
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...more than politics for their British penny. Says Mister Bart: "There's something for nearly everybody." The somethings rarely include straight news. The accent is on short, spicy stories on crime, tragedy and sex, eye-catching headlines (HE DIED AS THEY DANCED UNDER THE STARS), lively photographs, a caustic daily column by "Cassandra" (William Connor), and comics, ranging from the Mirror's own stripteasing Jane (TIME, Aug. 25) to action-packed Buck Ryan...
...weekly Idaho Mountaineer and pitches for the town's oft-beaten baseball team, criticized some of the fielders editorially for not playing hard enough. Last week Editor Colley's paper carried a front-page box: "This issue is a day late. The editor has two shiners. Caustic journalism doesn...
...Aldo d'Elia, Florence's Fascist "chief of cabinet" from, 1934 to 1944. D'Elia consoles himself that the Florentine public is as cynically volatile today as in Savonarola's time. D'Elia says: "Florence is a pagan city. The people are easily impassioned, caustic and fickle. They will one day treat their present rulers as they treated...
...teacher doesn't have a good time while he's teaching," the professor says, "no one else does," and practices what he preaches by thoroughly enjoying each lecture. His mimicry, pantomime, and caustic remarks on every topic in the all-inclusive course resurrect authors and characters alike, and although the amours of the Cavalier poets may not appear on the final examination, few open-minded listeners object to his treatment of them. All but the most serious grinds have been able to consider a "hot" lecture as "atmosphere...
Justice Frankfurter was caustic: "If only the Harrises were involved, one might be brutally indifferent. ... [But] what is involved far transcends the fate of some sordid offender. . . . How can there be freedom of thought or freedom of speech or freedom of religion if the police can, without warrant, search your house and mine from garret to cellar merely because they are executing a warrant of arrest? . . . Yesterday the justifying document was an illicit ration book, tomorrow it may be some suspect piece of literature...