Word: causticity
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...announced that it was "best left alone altogether." Despite such forthright professional judgments of his writings, Robert Ardrey, 61, the author of two anthropological bestsellers, African Genesis (1961) and The Territorial Imperative (1966), has now produced another work in the same field, which is certain to draw even more caustic criticism from the discipline he has chosen to invade...
...Bibliophile. Examination of the daily news summary tends to substantiate the staff's contention that it gives the President-referred to as RN in the digest-the bitter with the sweet. Last week, for instance, it contained the caustic appraisals of Vice President Spiro Agnew that came in response to Agnew's attack on the McGovern-Hatfield end-the-war amendment. It also took note of Senator Edward Kennedy's statement that he was "shocked and disappointed" by the Nixon decision to retain quotas on oil imports...
Partly he is seeking a form where it is still necessary to practice the old, unfashionable rites of careful plotting, factual scene setting and crisp narrative. The Green Man, though, is like an Amis novel with ghosts. Its tensions are dissipated at crucial moments by cold dashes of caustic humor. Its focus is blurred by a few too many themes and incidents. But it remains pretty high-grade Amis...
Foreigners are already doing well in Iran. In the southern town of Shahpur, one of the world's largest petrochemical plants, a $240 million venture involving the government and Allied Chemical Corp. as equal partners, went into operation last week. A $33 million caustic-soda plant was opened at Abadan last year; 74% of it is controlled by the government and 26% by B.F. Goodrich Co. At Kharg Island, a $45 million sulfur plant, built by Iran and a subsidiary of Indiana Standard Oil Co., recently began operations. Reynolds Metals Co. is putting up a $45 million aluminum plant...
...just the right low-keyed charm as the hero. Pamela Myers puts the audience under house arrest with a number called Another Hundred People. Beth Howland is hilarious as the wife who is too loving as she burns the toast. When it comes to Elaine Stritch and a wickedly caustic song called The Ladies Who Lunch, you just know that she has swallowed the cocktail glasses along with the martinis. They are all marvelous, and the pleasure of their Company awaits hundreds of thousands of people...