Word: sarcasms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night the whole perspective changes. Walking alone, one is confronted with crowds of people standing and, so it would seem, jeering with a mixture of envy and sarcasm. Or one meets a series of full-breasted and gold-toothed women who slither up and ask the perrennial question...
Many another co-worker has felt the bite of Philip's sarcasm. Said one of his close associates: "He doesn't mind putting himself out for people it's his duty to entertain. But when he wants facts from someone who is supposed to have them and he finds out they don't or are indifferent-well, then he can be bloody rude." He once interrupted a long-winded scientist in the midst of a long lecture, to remark: "That's all very well, but you still haven't found out what makes...
...from the frown. Deep and strong ("I have always had a commanding voice"), it needs no microphone to help it carry. Questions come slowly, in careful Southern cadence. In the voice, as if measured carefully by the tapping of a finger on a mahogany table, are righteousness and rebuke, sarcasm and sadness, incredulity and indignation. Never is there unrestrained anger...
...black high-collared rehearsal coat, Arturo Toscanini walked into NBC's Manhattan Studio 8-H and launched a Robert Shaw-trained chorus and a handful of soloists into the music he loved: Verdi's melodramatic, tearfully tender Aïda. With cajolery, threats and sarcasm ("Mr. Tucker," he inquired scathingly of Tenor Richard Tucker, "do you love a woman?"), he shaped a magnificently precise and passionate performance, presented to NBC televiewers and listeners in the spring of 1949. When RCA Victor decided to cut records from the broadcast tapes, Toscanini returned from retirement in 1954 to conduct...
...Britain's failure to consult the U.N., Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd called the U.N. "a policeman with both hands tied behind his back." In Canberra last week Australian Prime Minister Gordon Menzies, protesting the exclusion of British and French troops from the U.N. Emergency Force, said with bitter sarcasm: "It won't be easy ... to establish an international force of two battalions to protect Hungary against the Soviet Union, will it? That is a 30-or 40-division job; so I hope you will acquit me of being pessimistic when I say that I don't believe...