Word: cynically
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...that time, he became one of America's most brilliant journalists, sharpest wits and sourest cynics. His quarry was "conglomerate man . . . a tangled wad of rattlesnakes thawing and reeking in the Spring sunlight." Purdue University's Paul Fatout has uncoiled the tangled temperament of Cynic Bierce in a lively and readable new biography...
September Affair (Paramount), a slick product for a ready market, is just what a cynic might arrive at if he tried to imagine how Hollywood would have made Britain's 1946 Brief Encounter. Like the British picture, September Affair tells a wistfully ro mantic story of a couple thrown together into what readers of women's-magazine fiction know as a love that can never...
...John Claggart, the Master-at-Arms. Claggart represents not merely human weakness and cruelty--he is simpler than that. Claggart is pure, malicious evil. His counterpart in good is Billy Budd, an ingenuous young sailor who is as kind and friendly as he is handsome. Claggart is an abandoned cynic who cannot see good in man, while Billy cannot recognize evil...
That sly old cynic Andrei Vishinsky has treated the current U.N. Assembly to honeyed words mixed with his usual vinegary fare. Russia's Foreign Minister recently deplored what he called the U.S. "get-tough" policy toward the Communist world. He sighed for a get-soft line: "Why not go back to the old wartime . . . cooperation . . .? Then things may change . . . We should get together and see what can be done...
...picture focuses sharply on a wise, fanatically conscientious doctor (Everett Sloane) and three patients: a well-educated cynic (Jack Webb), a horseplaying loafer (Richard Erdman) who enjoys his invalidism at Government expense, and a good-natured Mexican-American (Arthur Jurado)* who is trying to win his release so he can get a house for his mother and his six brothers and sisters. But the brunt of the story and its theme is carried by a sullen, embittered patient (Marlon Brando) and the girl (Teresa Wright) who wants to go through with the marriage they planned before...