Word: causticity
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Still rankled by memories of the 1962 Der Spiegel press flap, when over-zealous German cops arrested staffers and raided the magazine's office after an article disclosing classified NATO information, the German press was predictably caustic about what the Sü'ddeutsche Zeitung aptly felt was "making an elephant out of a mosquito." At week's end the Cologne prosecutor had still not filed an indictment, and everyone was hoping that the Shah would decide to settle for Neven Dumont's personal apology and thus bring a quiet end to the tempest in an inkpot...
...editorial cartoonists show no enthusiasm for calm assessment. Goldwater has always been an enticing target and the cartoonists continue to slash away. The candidates themselves may have found few issues to debate, but to the artists of the editorial page the campaign has been a long excuse for caustic, black-and-white comment -a gallery of caricature in which the Republicans almost always come out second best (see cuts...
...enough lamentation. This Lampoon is, as I said before, another story. What's to be bitter? It's funny. And now, the palable crux of this innovation: four "distillations" of four Harvard publications. Caustic, sophisticated, sometimes subtle, sometimes slap-stick--honestly, they're just marvelous. A pity that freshmen, whom these parodies are designed to initiate, are unfamiliar with the archetypes, here so unmercifully stripped down to their naked pretensions...
...with caustic...
...Because of my fondness for Faulkner, I especially appreciated your analysis of the caustic situation in the South. It is a good lesson, before we castigate the South, to look at it through the eyes of Faulkner-objectively and critically, yet with understanding and compassion...