Word: cynic
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Hutchins himself is thoroughly gracious, a towering and handsome figure who speaks with distinct self-assurance. One who has been conditioned by descriptions of a sneering cynic finds himself very pleasantly surprised. And while the mellow trimmings to American education are every collegiate's joy, there is good reason to give Hutchins a hearing...
Indignant juvenile delinquents of both male and female gender have poured forth their wayward wrath upon Freshman cynic Donald S. Rugoff, who read Life Magazine's recent pictorial essay on the gloriously wholesome American teen-age girl and wrote to the editor venomously suggesting that he had been looking at our young girlhood through "rose-colored glasses," and urging him to take a soulful glance at the pick-ups in Times Square and Boston Common...
Sheppey (well played by Edmund Gwenn) is a perky London barber who wins ?8,500 in a sweepstakes, decides to give his money to the poor, begins by bringing home a streetwalker and a thief. From there on the cynic and ironist in Maugham have a field day. Sheppey, his family feels sure, must be off his chump. The harlot and the thief, bored stiff by the good life, scamper back to the bad one. For a final joker, Maugham shows that the exemplary Sheppey really is sick: he has been having visions of a strange woman, who turns...
...aforementioned quotes were Boolba the cynic. His true love for humanity is evidenced by the fact that up until six months ago he was an ardent vegetarian because he couldn't bear to think of eating an animal that had been killed so that he could have his fill. Something must have happened six months ago, for today he say: "Now I feel that I could eat a human being... that is, if he were well prepared...
...Deals. A loyal Tammanyite and oldtime pillar of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Joe Day was always a tough trader. When he engineered the sale of Tammany's famed 14th Street headquarters, one cynic penned a sarcastic parody of When Day Is Done, ending...