Word: sarcasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Stearns has better control of vocal ranges, and uses them effectively. Her asides are expertly executed, and her combination of indignation, hurt, affection, amusement, sarcasm and despair make Clarisse quite believable even in this contrived setting...
What is most wrong with the multilateral idea, said Rockefeller, is "the fact that it avoids the basic problem of Europe's own understandable desire to be able to respond with its own nuclear weapons in its own defense in the event of attack." With heavy sarcasm, he added: "Of course, weak and dependent satellites are more tractable than proud independent Allies. They will also be more unreliable in times of stress...
...former editor of the Catholic Worker and a sincere social democrat, Harrington sees America as so self-satisfied that it missed the eloquence and the sarcasm in Galbraith's Affluent Society. Harrington considers Galbraith "one of the first to understand that there are enough poor people in the United States to constitute a subculture of misery, but not enough of them to challenge the conscience and the imagination of the nation...
...hisses or applause with which his History 169 students often greet him. When this urbane figure turns to a discussion of intellectual history, he gives a dramatic, as well as an historical, interpretation of the men treated in the course. Reading from original sources, he tries to convey the sarcasm of H.L. Mencken, the vitality of Theodore Roosevelt, or the pomposity of William Jennings Bryan...
Bush demanded a subcommittee vote on adjournment; Symington insisted firmly that he had a right to adjourn the subcommittee on his own. George Humphrey tried to get in a word: "Mr. Chairman . . ." Symington's reply dripped with sarcasm : " 'Senator' Humphrey would like to say something." Humphrey: Before you adjourn this, and I am very complimented at being called Senator Humphrey, but that is not the fact...