Word: sardonicism
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Drifting on a lazy stream of subconsciousness, some modern short-story writers seem to forget that they owe their reader-passengers a destination. Not so Scottish Neil (Behold Thy Daughter) Paterson, a canny navigator with some of Somerset Maugham's gift for piloting a narrative to home port. The...
To a radio audience last week, Poet Carl Sandburg strummed this sardonic ditty on his "gittar." The song was written by some wags in the Office of Price Administration during World War II, said Sandburg, and he thought that it was mighty timely now.
Sunset Boulevard. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder take a clever, sardonic look at Hollywood, and Gloria Swanson makes her comeback, in the year's most consistently brilliant display of movie craftsmanship (TIME, Aug. 14).
The conferences in the Kremlin during those August days in 1942 were sharp and exhausting. Winston Churchill's mission was to explain to Stalin why the cross-Channel invasion would have to be delayed. By turns Stalin was truculent, sardonic, accusing; Churchill direct, blunt, vehement. At last the sessions...
The movie is based on a sardonic New Yorker article by John McNulty, but Scripters Phoebe and Henry Ephron seem to have leaned more heavily on the comic strip Blondie for their family sequences, and on Damon Runyan for an episode with a Chicago gangster. Director Walter Lang helps out...