Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Infernal Machine (adapted by Albert Bermel from the French of Jean Cocteau) is Oedipus Rex revised and enlarged. The Cocteau version, which is 24 years old, does some clever satiric tale twisting, makes the story turn a psychological handspring or two, tosses in talk of music and dancing, and includes scene after scene that Sophocles did without. It uses a legitimate method of getting out of a classical rut and taking a fresh modern slant. The result is interesting without being successful...
...plinth. Such is the case of Britain's T. S. Eliot. Now he has had the ultimate accolade: a full-and fancy-dress parody. In the season's least subtle anagram, it is signed Myra Buttle; it represents the rebuttal to Eliot of a waspish and clever Cambridge lecturer in Far Eastern history named Victor Purcell (possibly, the publishers heavily hint, he had some distinguished anti-Eliot collaborators, including Robert Graves and C. Day Lewis). In Britain The Sweeniad-titled for Apeneck Sweeney, Eliot's loathed modern subman-has already provoked tempests in all the best literary...
When the radio beeps of Sputnik I died away in late October, most of the world's Sputnik watchers, official and unofficial, lost track of it. But not Engineer-Astronomer John Daniel Kraus, professor of electrical engineering at Ohio State University, who worked out a clever system of his own for watching beepless Sputniks. Last week Professor Kraus asserted that he had observed the disintegration and presumptive death of Sputnik...
Socrates' job was to engage clever young men in discussion; they thought they knew everything, but after being subjected to the Socratic treatment, they began to realize that there were a few things they did not know. I had imagined that Harvard education consisted in an application of the Socratic method, but now it seems to me that we of the Harvard faculty fall down on our job, else how explain that a student can spend three or four years at Harvard and not have at least some of his "know-it-all" dogmatism rubbed...
...Kerr is a clever writer, more talented at writing parodies than describing a contrived and exaggerated family situation. After fifty pages of the Kerr family, her humor becomes strained and uninteresting...