Word: sardonicism
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Moral Breakdowns. As a prologue to Shantung Compound, Gilkey approvingly quotes Brecht's sardonic couplet: "For even saintly folk will act like sinners,/Unless they have their customary dinners." To his surprise, Gilkey discovered that the most devout missionaries were not immune from selfishness. Even ministers began to squabble...
Scarcely three weeks after the show opened at Broadway's Winter Garden, Angela Lansbury, 40, who had spent most of her career typecast as a termagant, came forward in Manhattan's Rainbow Room and accepted the American Theater Wing's Tony Award as the best musical actress...
Because they live with the constant threat of expulsion for the slightest offenses-real or imagined-Western correspondents stationed in Moscow tend to turn out supercautious, colorless copy. Not CBS's Hughes Rudd. With characteristic zest, he breaks the general journalistic rule, and for some reason he is allowed...
The first course in a two-week Harvard Brechfest, A Man's a Man much resembles a glass of orange juice: acid, topped with froth, filled with stray bits of pith, and innocent of dramatic structure. Though technically clumsy, the Kirkland House production of this laboriously didactic work has its...
World War I was notable for the testing of many inventions. Thermite came along, mustard gas and the flamethrower, but the prime change in warfare stemmed from the ability of modern industry to turn out an unlimited quantity of high explosives. What this meant in chilling human terms is the...