Word: cynic
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...cynic might call this corn...
...must be faced that men are yet reluctant to grant that their position of natural superiority through the ages has only been a satisfying myth. A girl is left upon her wiles. Remembering the admonition of "that loveable old cynic" Dorothy Parker about "girls who wear glasses," many a Cliffedweller foregoes the wisdom of Portia to remain an unlearned, loveable Juliet. Happily, the star of Rosalind, who succeeded in combining both wit and grace, seems to be in its ascendancy over Garden Street...
...world . . . people in America are, for the most part, poorly informed. This is not the fault of the daily newspapers ; they print all the news. It is not the fault of the weekly "reviews"; they adequately develop and comment on the news. To say with the facile cynic that it is the fault of the people themselves is to beg the question. People are uninformed because no publication has adapted itself to the time which busy men are able to spend on simply keeping informed...
...without stain. As she is packing to leave, the new tenant moves in. It is a young saxophone player from Minneapolis, a clean-cut young man. He tells her she can share the room with him. She thinks he's an innocent rube, he thinks she's a super-cynic...
...felt and said that Britain was becoming apathetic to European solidarity; the British in turn accused the continental nations of having no understanding of Britain's special pangs and problems. Last week, another working party sat down to try for an operation less painful to Britain. Said one cynic: "Their only hope now is to find a solution that dissatisfies everybody. In that case, you can get agreement...