Word: sardonicism
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As a result, the film version of Jane Eyre often resembles the peculiar combination of ghost story and murder mystery, lacking only the corpse and the supernatural. It is bombastic, thoroughly enjoyable, and, of course, a fitting vehicle for Orson Welles. In appearance alone, Welles is a perfect Edward Rochester...
In Manhattan's Blue Angel last week, the house lights dimmed and the M.C. announced the newest thing in the nightclub belt: a theoretical physicist who turns out tunes on the side. Tom Lehrer, tall, lean, 25, strode purposefully to the piano, peered into the crowd through horn-rimmed...
While there has been occasional friction between members and non-members in recent years, the incidents have not been serious ones. At worst, some clubs have been targets for snowballs, and a few broken windows have resulted. More often, any resentment takes a quiet, sardonic tone, as when Porcellian was...
Audiences in Baltimore and Washington were the first to sample the Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre, and they found it something like an intimate revue. One number among the evening's half a dozen or so, Hares on the Mountain, is an affectionately sardonic sketch of an old mountaineer...
A Savage World. Thorstein Veblen also cast a jaundiced eye on the bourgeoisie. A nonconformist who might have been one of Sinclair Lewis' village atheists, he was born on the American frontier of Norwegian parents. Among other peculiarities, he locked his watch to his vest with a large safety...