Word: cynic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British people-and why confine it to the British anyway? As for that Irish newspaper which said that Billy had taken Ireland by storm even in absentia: phooey! MAUD CHEGWIDDEN San Francisco Sir: If Graham goes for orange juice, the unpriestly Priestley is steeped in dill-pickle juice. This cynic is not one of those Britons whose minds "are wide open as well as being empty." His mind, though empty, is closed...
Would he shake hands, asked one cynic, with anyone whom he knew had shaken hands with a Communist...
...mordant meaning of this dumb show. A Negro cripple named Black Guinea squats on his deformed legs and begs for his supper by singing an idiotic little tune, winning the crowd's favor by catching pennies, and more than a few buttons, in his mouth. A mean-spoken cynic promptly accuses the cripple of shamming, and after a vain, mumbling plea for "confidence," Black Guinea slinks off the boat at the next landing. Black Guinea is the first of many disguises assumed by the confidence-man and the clue to Melville's bitter moral. He mulcts the fools...
Ehrenburg's eulogy of Stalin after the dictator's death was more fulsome than any other. Yet, a few months later, he published a novel called The Thaw which Stalin would never have stood for. In The Thaw the Cynic, not the Idealist, is shown setting the tone of Soviet life, and for the first time in a Communist-printed work, explicit references are made to the melancholy effect on Soviet professional life of Stalin's wide-sweeping 1936-38 purge: characters bemoan the disappearance of families and friends for crimes they did not commit. Last week...
...sure, an outline does not do it justice. Put Team All Together has some clever lines and a certain among of slick repartee. But nearly all the good lines are given to the nurse, played by Barbara Lawrence. The authors wrote the part as a jaded cynic; Miss Lawrence plays it as a raucous floozy. As a result, the lines sound completely improbable, and what humor there is falls embarrassingly flat. Miss Lawrence at least brings ample physical equipment to her duties...