Word: cynicisms
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...couldn't have happened to a more vulnerable guy. Hank Glyczwycz is a bitter middle-aged cynic. He was just beginning to loosen up to his students' sweet faith in love and peace highs when Gloria wrecks him with her disclosure. She is the forgotten illegitimate daughter from a distant love affair...
While the rest of us, whether PL or Young Republican or rising young politico or tired, liberal cynic, merely mirrored his games in our own distorting mirrors. We all had run the race, we all laid claim to the prize, while the killing in Indochina, immune to our debate over the meaning of "End the War." went irrevocably...
...Jack Kennedy may have been daring, but foolhardy he was not. He may have been pragmatic, but he was never a cynic. He did not make a totem pole of his mistakes. The trouble with Jack Kennedy's inaugural address is that he had so little time to attempt to put it into practice and that we Americans have so little personal interest in picking up and carrying out his challenge of excellence, humanity and peace...
Alongside Chomsky's apocalyptic posture-historian as moralist and trac-tarian-Bloodworth has the slouch of a cynic. He is the professional journalist, selecting the amusing or exotic tidbit for the reader's jaded palate. He has seen too much to be shocked by anything or to believe in anything. He survives by his reflex for flippancy. Yet, by a curious paradox, Bloodworth's book eventually seems wiser and even more serious than Chomsky...
...FACT, at times one almost felt her too good for the material, Brel-at least the Brel who filters through the English translations-is generally heralded as "a poet," "a poet and a philosopher," "an ironies of cynical maturity," and "a man low on hope but high on love" (to quote the bedazzled Boston press). Brel, they would have us believe, is a realistic romantic and a tempered cynic. But what comes through his songs-at least those chosen for this show-is not so much romantic as sentimental, the songs of a man less a cynic, more a weak...