Word: sardonicism
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The 19th Century proves a useful anachronism, lifting the play out of semibarbaric shadow without exposing it to too modern a glare. And the self-mocking, self-pitying, sardonic, introspective Prince is in many ways a perfect 19th-Century hero: a child-as he was actually the great-grandfather-of...
Politics and its tough offspring war were among the year's most minatory realities. But their reflection in books fell somewhat short of the total original. Among the most provocative were: Henry A. Wallace's Sixty Million Jobs, the Secretary of Commerce's pat prescription for the...
Sardonic New York Timesman Brooks Atkinson last week took advantage of Moscow's new freedom from censorship to get a few things about Russia off his chest. He noted the "fatuous satisfaction" in the Russian press over Soviet Russia's soccer victory in England (TIME, Nov. 26), and...
Army's Ball. The Army, all out for merger, had kept the ball. All week, before the Senate Military Affairs Committee, the Army's best backs plunged down the field. Tough, sardonic Air General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, soon to be Chief of Army Air Forces, stressed the importance...
These were the principal shifts fortnight ago, in the biggest command stir-up the Navy has had since the war began. Other changes included handsome Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, 62, who made way for Mitscher and will become superintendent of the Naval Academy, where one of his first big chores...