Word: sardonicism
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Under the Bed. Author Chevallier is obviously out for a fictional romp, and even people who deplore his easy tolerance can enjoy his plotless prattle. Marcel Aymé, as able a writer as any in France, is no more inclined to scold sinners, but his tightly plotted yarn is a...
Danielle Darrieux retains an aristocratic air throughout her relations with valet Mason. Her scheming has a real scope, and her sardonic, unrelenting smile is very convincing. Michael Rennie, nattily attired in a Bond-tailored-to-measure suit, is the London office's special troubleshooter sent to Ankara to bust open...
Death of a Favorite and Defection of a Favorite are sardonic studies of ambition in the hinterlands. A Midwest farm-country curate itches for his aged pastor's post as rabidly as if it were a cardinal's red hat. Only after he trips over all his political...
Any army, to a soldier serving unwillingly, is apt to seem a carefully designed tyranny. Writers, especially, see military life as a kind of conspiracy to fracture their sensibilities. A lot of German soldierwriters seem no different from novelistsin-uniform anywhere when it comes to heaping scorn on barracks life...
Company K was a sardonic minor masterpiece of World War I-a painful punishment drill in the doorless barracks of total recall. Its author, William March, died two years ago at 60. almost unregarded-before his Bad Seed, a tale designed to prove that even children may have murder in...