Word: sardonicism
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In covering the new society, some papers have actually gone out and made society news. For example. Chicago Daily News Society Editor Athlyn Deshais last year ran a contest to select the "New Queen of Chicago Society" (TIME, Jan. 18, 1954); it proved to be one of the paper'...
On Robert Montgomery Presents, viewers were off on a brisk gallop with the gentry of Old England. Margaret Phillips played the haughty lady who falls in love with a young schoolteacher who knows his place but cannot keep it. There is a murder, and the young man will hang if...
Unlike the work of his contemporary Pablo Picasso, whose work is often described as sardonic and reflective of 20th century violence, Matisse's painting is always serene and detached.
MUSEUM PIECES, by William Plomer (282 pp.; Noonday; $3.50), is an expertly-fashioned literary paradox: a sad comedy that turns into an amusing tragedy. It is about a couple of leftovers from Edwardian England-Toby d'Arfey, a brilliant, sardonic dilettante who was born in 1900 and develops into...
Socialists, who had suffered under Churchill's taunts of "Scuttle" when they advocated withdrawal from Suez in 1946, thoroughly enjoyed Churchill's discomfiture, greeted him with sardonic cries of "No scuttling." Below the gangway sat 40 grim-faced Tories, the "Suez rebels" sworn to vote against the government...