Word: mocks
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...essentially an economic debate. Normally a calm, rational schoolteacher, Guy Mollet hates Nasser with a smoldering passion, and the French respect him for it. One measure of Mollet's standing in the country: Montmartre's irreverent chansonniers, traditionally free with politicians in their songs, do not mock Mollet...
...cast of this show is large enough to make some variation in skill among its members inevitable. Fortunately, however, the three principals are all very good. Harold Scott leers through the part of Jupiter with just the right amount of abandon, and gives it a most amusing kind of mock dignity. He also reveals a pleasant singing voice, which, if not overly strong, is generally clear and understandable. Sara-Jane Smith, as Eurydice, proves herself the best singer in the show with a soprano that has both power and range. Though she seems less sure of herself during the spoken...
...point of topical slanginess ("Imagine her fitted by Dior!"). Ovid, Humphries argues, would have done the same. In a faintly disguised account of his own liaisons about town (The Loves), Ovid sees a love affair in two lights-either as sunlit sensuality or as a kind of mock-heroic comedy...
...There is a tendency, a product of the egotism in all of us, to mock the unfamiliar in other men's faith and worship. Such words as 'heathen,' 'idolatry,' 'superstition.' are used more often as smear words or in derision than in their legitimate meanings. They are words we hurl at others; seldom do we apply them to ourselves. Yet every man should command respect in the moment when he bows before his god. We may believe that his conception of the Divine lacks valuable, even essential, elements. His forms of worship...
...spectacular Americans with some competition and round up contestants for the other events, the Broadmoor had flown in the best figure skaters from Europe. Japan hopefully sent over five contestants, including a twelve-year-old girl. Carried away by it all, whooping Westerners hustled the bewildered foreign skaters through mock branding ceremonies (with redhot irons that sizzled slabs of wood clapped over the visitors' backsides) and dragged them on lariats to the Broadmoor Hotel's front desk...