Word: causticity
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...scene set in the delivery room at Widener is the most complicated of the review, also the swiftest and most caustic. It rips and ribs "Harry's Club" for the hopeless book delivery and redtape-edged stack permits. The desk attendant bewails the competition from Boylston, and the mysterious building on the right, while a happy little fellow who appears frequently, and from nowhere, promises "Dancing in the Stacks Tonight" because it's reading period...
...would repudiate the imputation of a common ancestry with man." Much publicized, highly controversial Anthropologist Hooton has a high regard for gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, etc.; an increasingly low regard for the social and biological status of man. Last week the dismal state of humanity lifted his talent for caustic castigation to new heights...
Meanwhile, the St. Louis Star-Times, ardently for Roosevelt and all his works, looked on with increasing wrath. When To the Brink appeared, the Star-Times lashed out with a caustic editorial of its own on page 1. Missouri's New Deal Representative Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. read the Star-Times answer into the Congressional Record, and the Post-Dispatch crusade exploded into a full-fledged editorial...
...acquisition by the U. S. of naval bases in the Western Hemisphere. Last week the Tribune, in its first edition, ran a 166-line editorial, We Get the Bases, pointing to the President's deal as a triumph for the Tribune. On page 1 the Tribune printed a caustic cartoon titled Nearer and Nearer the Brink, condemning the deal as an act of war (see cut, p. 77). In later editions the cartoon disappeared, was replaced by another kidding Franklin Roosevelt's trip to Tennessee. In its third edition the Tribune slashed its long editorial to a mild...
...denies the widespread notion that Siberian exile altered the thought and method of "one of the most original novelists in world literature." Dostoevski's originality combined 1) his distrust for Western European culture; 2) his belief in feeling against reason; 3) his expert, unprecedented child psychology; 4) his caustic satire, especially of radicals in The Possessed; 5) his great character types-the Meek, the Double, the Self-Willed...