Word: causticity
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...duel between appearance and reality is so close to the main artery of drama's heart that it is intrinsically exciting. Nonetheless, the APA production of The Wild Duck is cozy when it should be caustic, chucklesome when it should roar with outraged laughter, genteelly aggrieved when it ought to be spurting pain. The APA troupe does its customarily accomplished job of acting and touches off sporadic match flares of understanding throughout the play, but Ibsen had a crueler intention: to drag everything and everyone screaming into unrelenting light...
...campaign, and to establish itself as a broad-based party with ample room for ideological differences and leaders as far apart as a Rockefeller and California's Governor-elect Ronald Reagan. If that prescription seemed predictable, they did not agree on it without engaging in some caustic casuistry that did little to help the party or the disputants...
Frank had his own reason to be annoyed. What bothered him most (and what provoked his caustic statement) was that he was not against protest but, on the contrary, had done everything he could to see that SDS's right to protest would be both respected and protected. SDS did not seem thankful for this gesture, nor did it seem willing to reciprocate by giving assurances that the demonstration would be peaceful. These conditions, Frank thought, were within the rules of the protest game as it had been played at Harvard and as it should be played. SDS's cold...
...find fault with his country and with his Government every two years." He declared that Nixon "doesn't serve his country well" by broadcasting such criticism "in the hope that he can pick up a precinct or two or a ward or two." In the most caustic gibe of all, he said of Nixon: "He never did really recognize and realize what was going on when he had an official position in the Government. You remember what President Eisenhower said: that if you would give him a week or so, he'd figure out what Nixon was doing...
...doesn't construe his life as one thing and his job as another-he wears his humanity on his sleeve." The gentle Arrowsmith also burns with the notion that education has been turning sour ever since the 5th century, and he is making himself one of the most caustic critics of academe in the 20th...