Word: cynic
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...hallway and through clenched teeth mutters, "Don't think I don't know what's going on here. The filth, the filth." A legal secretary from Long Island expresses her distaste for Greek cuisine by insisting upon ham sandwiches and malted milks, and one cynic suggests that the ship is really a floating mental hospital, the stewards actually keepers, the passengers patients. They are doomed to sail forever...
...complemented radio. Still, CBS has protected its profits with an intricate tangle of patents. An agreement made with the New York Times for creation of the first EVR educational films, for example, provides that CBS will share with the Times in both production and profits. Eventually, as one industry cynic observed last week, the mediocrity of network TV may prove to be a virtue by stimulating the sales...
ALDOUS HUXLEY, by John Atkins; THE HUXLEYS, by Ronald W. Clark. Cynic or mystic? Humanist or cold fish? Both books get close to the answers as they dissect the puzzling genius whose family contributed more than its share of intellectual heavyweights...
Which legend is nearer to the truth-the bright young cynic or the compassionate old guru? In different ways, these three books grapple with the question. And by the intensity they generate, they suggest that the question concerns what sort of face is not only most appropriate for Huxley but also for the age of transition whose dilemmas he so accurately reflected...
Lynd concedes that the ultimate risk of this position invites "generalized disrespect for law," but he slides away from consequences. When in doubt, he radiates an unqualified trust in the natural goodness and perfectibility of man that makes such an early wishful-thinker as Rousseau look like a cynic...