Word: cynicisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than skin deep and that a few dermal alterations won't make the course of true affection change. You may have dropped this notion the same year you recognized poppa's schnozzle above Santa's whiskers, but "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" will make even the most case-hardened cynic wish he believed it true...
...midst of preparation for an Ec or Physics exam,--it is bittersweet. Everyone is wildly happy through reel after reel. Then a tinge of dewey-eyed sadness and the molasses rolls up and down the aisles in great gooey gobs. The whole thing ought to give even the mildest cynic indigestion for weeks...
...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...