Word: cynic
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...life, publish their "diaries" and "memoirs." Stages on Life's Way gleams brilliantly as character after character cuts a new facet on that indestructible gem, love between man & woman. Part I is a memoir of a wine-sodden banquet where a gay seducer, a fashion stylist, a cynic, etc. discourse on follies of woman and love. Theirs is life's esthetic stage. The ethical is explored in Part II by a happily married essayist. "Yes, it is true, no poet will ever be able to say [of the married man] as the poets say of the crafty Ulysses...
...Saar plebiscite controversy as French liaison man for such characters as Otto Abetz (now Ambassador to Unoccupied France) and Abetz mentor, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Neither was very important then, but both were comers. Remains was impressed by Ribbentrop's "18th-Century mind," thought he was the kind of cynic who would leaven the extremism of the Nazis. He was more impressed by young Otto Abetz, who had a French wife and spoke feelingly of the cultural bonds between western Germany and France. Abetz became a charter member of an informal international band of peace-lovers who seriously called themselves...
Nervously Mexico watched this threatening dualism. Last July's farcical, bloody election had settled nothing. Dark overtones of gunfire continued. A dozen Mexicans had been wounded in shooting bouts on that day alone. Rumors of revolt sprang up everywhere. Quipped one cynic: "Well, at last Mexico has a two-party system...
...Giggling Professor. When the New Deal rediscovered "monopolies" in 1937-38 and picked Thurman Arnold to go after them, the appointment was regarded by old-fashioned trustbusters of the Borah school as a rather bad joke. Arnold was a cynic, a word-juggler, a clown. With a background of Wyoming sheepherding, Princeton ('11) and Harvard Law ('14), he had returned from the war to help General Smedley Butler drive the prostitutes from New Orleans. Said he: "I didn't even make a dent in the town." His cynicism and love of low comedy were augmented back...
...father had always talked to him about the melting pot of golden opportunity that was America. But his father was a buoyant optimist of the 1890's and early 1900's, while Vag was inclined to think of himself as a hard-boiled post-war cynic. His was a practical America, a country of depressions and recessions and bonus armies, not a haven with free land for all and riches for the picking. But occasionally Vag's cynicism was subjected to disquieting qualms. He was particularly haunted by visions of a vitriolic figure with an extremely photogenic face who hopped...