Word: causticity
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...caustic Carly Fiorina got canned from Hewlett-Packard, didn't she? So here comes a vastly different philosophy for corporate women that tells them to enjoy being a girl; they can still boss the boys effectively. "Offer a sweet," counsels The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness (Doubleday). "Keep a stash of fun-sized candy bars on your desk or nearby. When the people who come to see you seem tense, tired, or cranky, pop open your drawer and pass out the Snickers. (Note: Extra credit for homemade cookies...
...Gutmann op-ed is significant if only for its tone, including this caustic concluding paragraph...
...republic" of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow pits a bloated, inept dictator - whose solution to the country's crippling poverty is to build a tower that reaches heaven - against a wizard who cures his clients with emotional therapy disguised as sorcery. As lyrical as a bedtime story, but also caustic and earthy, the novel grapples with big issues - social inequality, corruption, aids - along with more subtle signs of Africa's insecurity, like envy of the West or the loss of a national language. And it's laugh-out-loud funny. "Dictatorship is tragedy that manifests itself in comedy," says Ngugi...
...course they didn't. But Clinton went some way toward confirming the very thing Coulter had alleged: that certain kinds of discourse - caustic, yes; outrageous, yes; illiberal, certainly - are not allowed...
...College, requested an office but received only a storage locker. Large political groups, such as the Harvard Republican Club and the Harvard College Democrats, also felt snubbed, receiving significantly smaller spaces than they applied for. And if you write for the Harvard Salient, you could only look on with caustic bewilderment as other substantially less prolific publications (such as a glossy lifestyle magazine that has published exactly one issue) ended up with more than double your share of the Hilles pie. These assignments are so surprising because the Committee on College Life’s Subcommittee on Student Organization Space...