Word: causticity
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...with this opinion, this assumption that critics must quarrel. There has been much caustic commenting on various and single incidents; and because the position of President Lowell and the Corporation was not clear some of it has been unjust. The real issue is at last apparent: Is there an important place in Harvard for a "permanent school for playwrights"? The CRIMSON believes that theatrical training has such a place in the University; and that the administration committed a serious error in judgment when it adopted its present opinion...
...doubt fewer of those mammoth physical specimens from prairie farms report to Mr. Stagg as raw football candidates than in the days of Dink Stover, but the caustic critic points out that most of these demi-gods were muscle-bound, and that they dissipated in saloons and buggies, whereas the modern youth has only the ice cream parlor and the harmless Ford. Moreover, these huge giants are far too large to fit into the modern scheme of things, subway turnstiles, for example...
...below that tawdry thoroughfare, buried in the back of Greenwich Village, is the tiny Cherry Lane Playhouse where Congreve has come back to life. The gentleman under discussion is an English dramatist of the 17th Century. He was considered the Bernard Shaw of his time. His plays are witty, caustic causeries of a decadent society. The Way of the World is often thought his best...
Merton of the Movies. Lacking the smouldering satire of the book, deprived of the caustic cleverness of the play, slightly distorted as to plot, the camera version of Merton Gill still reveals him as one of the strong men in the cinema sideshow. Probably the heart of the story is too vigorous to skip a beat just because certain outward features are differently applied. Merton has now been played in all the available roles, differently each time and each time with enviable effect...
While the writer of the communication below warns young journalists that they will be troubled by having cheerfulness "break through" upon them, he seems to have been only very slightly afflicted in this way himself. In fact, his searing, caustic criticism of the public press does much to shake one's youthful confidence in a romantic, Richard-Harding-Davis like of which all members are gentlemen, all editors outwardly cytrlcal but inwardly tender and human, all owners impressive and domineering but quick to discern loyalty and ability in their devoted neophytes...