Word: sardonicism
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Bullets & Batons. In the first trial hearings late in December, the defendants found themselves penned up in the center of the courtroom in a 6-ft.-high cage of steel scaffolding and wire netting. Only after a sardonic prisoner hung a scribbled "Do Not Feed" sign on the wire and...
As the movie opens, the great man dies in an auto crash. A witheringly sardonic radio executive (Keenan Wynn) springs into action. The great man must be replaced. He picks Commentator Jose Ferrer, a promising gossipist on Manhattan night life who is at the halfway point to corruption, with ambition...
Bitter Honeymoon, by Alberto Moravia. Sardonic short stories from the fine Italian hand of one of the ablest novelists alive on his favorite theme, the battle of the sexes-that war in which all victories are Pyrrhic (TIME, Aug. 13).
Thus with proud self-derision the Old Contemptibles* of 1914 sang as they marched to battle. British Author Wolf Mankowitz has written a superb novel about an Old Contemptible who has lived beyond his era, beyond World War II (when everything was "more efficient"), and on into the Welfare State...
"Utterly Bad." Two national farm organizations, the Grange and the left-of-center Farmers Union, urged the President, to sign. Farmers Union President James Patton shot off a sardonic telegram to the President's vacation headquarters at Augusta, Ga.: WHILE YOU ARE GOLFING IN AUGUSTA, AFTER THE NINTH HOLE...