Word: sardonicism
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The Author, long a professor of philosophy in a Roman high school, turned to drama late in life after writing many novels and short stories. "Pirandellian" is now Italy's equivalent for "Shavian." He came to wide fame only in 1921, with his play Six Characters in Search of...
CHILDREN OF THE MORNING- W. L. George-Putnam ($2). Originally romantic, the Crusoe theme has passed through many literary phases and now emerges as a peg for behaviorist psychology. Summoning an earthquake and hurricane, Author George casts 59 children upon a scientifically desert island near Nicaragua, without a single adult...
*Publisher Bonfils knows ringmaster gabble. With his late partner, H. H. Tarnmen, he owned the Sells-Floto circus. The basis of his journalistic technique is a sardonic conception of "the people" as a childish mob to be amused, pampered, bullied, used.
Radio sets attuned to WJZ one night last week caught neither bedtime Fuchs (the Austrian who drew Edward VII's portrait for British postage stamps) had the air. Sardonic, whimsical, he said:
¶ Nodded sardonic approval as Viscount Burnham whimsically expounded the Judicial Proceedings Act to suppress publication of evidence in divorce cases (TIME, Dec. 20) as follows: