Word: causticity
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...Dealer, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas now has fairly good repute in Wall Street. Year and a half ago, however, he could justly claim to be the Street's pet aversion-invited to speak before the Bond Club of New York, he produced a caustic tirade which suggested the entire reshaping of investment banking and left his hearers speechless with fury. Among tart Bill Douglas' minor suggestions was that investment trusts take a larger role in underwriting...
Really scathing attacks on Neville Chamberlain were made almost entirely from extremely safe distances of several thousand miles, notably by certain Manhattan radio news broadcasters. Of these. Johannes Steel, a German agent on mysterious missions in Brazil until the Nazis came into power, was the most caustic: "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. So they call it peace! . . . They call it peace because the victim, not being able to save itself from its friends, cannot face the enemy alone. They call it peace because the victor received the spoils before instead of after battle! . . . The England of Mr. Chamberlain...
Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad of the University of London is by turns persuasive, glib, caustic, profound. In Return to Philosophy, Common Sense Ethics, Mind and Matter and other books, he has furnished, he says, "a restatement in modern terms of certain traditional beliefs." He argues that reason, "properly employed," can arrive at truth. A praiser of times past, he dislikes Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Stravinsky music, surrealist painting, modern advertising. His objection to science appears to be that it does not provide enough digestive pills of wisdom to go with its banquet of knowledge...
...vacancies in Philadelphia's Third Circuit Court of Appeals (TIME, June 13), the President elevated cute, caustic, gangling District Judge William Clark, 47, foe of the late 18th Amendment,* now presiding over C.I.O.'s suit for an injunction against interference with civil liberties in Jersey City...
...Caustic without being bitter is Boston's white-thatched, bow-tied Porter Sargent. The saltiest commentator on U. S. education, from which he makes his living but for which he has a certain amused contempt, Porter Sargent prefaces his famed annual catalogue of 4,000 private schools with his shrewd opinions on men and affairs. Last week, in the 22nd edition of his Handbook of Private Schools, he threw most of his custard pies at the two most popular favorites of U. S. higher education -President James Bryant Conant of Harvard and President Robert Maynard Hutchins of University...