Word: sardonicism
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The disintegration of a trio so intrenched in tradition and so powerful because of the caliber of their graduates in all sections of the country is deprecated not only by alumni of these institutions but by college men generally, the feeling being that when a rupture such as this occurs...
Satire is a mood that has long been popular on the stage, where Roxie first displayed her not entirely innocent enticements to a jury of twelve true men. On the screen, satire has been somewhat neglected. But on the whole and in good measure due to the raucous energies of...
Few will deny that towering Feodor Chaliapin is an imposing actor, an irreproachable singer of opera. Likewise, many have found him imperiously temperamental. Last week as the sardonic, demonic Mephistopheles of Faust he poured out his ruddy bass to the burghers, dames and daughters of Vienna in the Vienna Opera...
THE BAND PLAYS DIXIE-Morris Markey-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Author Markey, the latest recruit to that swelling corps of young Manhattan newsgatherers who write disillusioned novels about wars, is not unaccomplished. His story has many an authentically stirring moment-a Yankee band challenging the Rebels with "Dixie" before the carnage...
16) What sardonic Italian play-wright-author is looked upon as the Italian G. B. Shaw?