Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tale, for strength of mind, arm and heart; Sita, his wife, for undying faithfulness. Under the guise of restoring the classic, Satirist Aubrey Menen (The Prevalence of Witches, Dead Man in the Silver Market) slyly milks a sacred cow for laughs. His freewheeling and irreverent Ramayana is a mock epic that owes less to its original author, the Hindu poet Valmiki, than it does to Voltaire's Candide and Boccaccio's Decameron...
...other churches in the light of Our Lord's prayer that we may be sanctified in the truth and that we may all be one? ... Great masses of people in many parts of the world are hungry for bread, and are compelled to live in conditions which mock their human worth. Does your church speak and act against such injustice? . . . Does your congregation live for itself, or for the world around it and beyond it? ... Do you forgive one another as Christ forgave you? Is your congregation a true family of God where every man can find a home...
...were relearning the wonders of red meat, roasted to crackling brown and served in a sea of tangy juices. After 14½ steak-starved years, the government lifted the ration on meat, and Britain's red-blooded trenchermen were declared free and independent of such gustatory travesties as mock goose (potatoes flavored with sage and onion), Egyptian pie (baked lentils and onions), veal cutlet made of rabbit, and toad-in-the-hole (sausages and batter...
...issue reportedly originated, however, with the publication of an advertisement in another student weekly, the Rampart, which was submitted by an organization not on the List. This advertised a mock trial of Senator McCarthy...
...Wertherism, and the sea gull, Nina, seems a period heroine who breaks romantically with conventional life, is "ruined" by an interesting older man and exhibits emotions not so much false as several sizes too large for her. Having imported romantic melancholy, Chekhov-being Chekhov-could only in some degree mock its posturings; The Sea Gull remains an uneasy mixture of satire and sentiment rather than a true fusion of the comic and tragic...