Word: sardonicism
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Strangelove treated the atomic bomb," he says. "It's funny, but it was an area that we felt deserved a sardonic look."
(3 of 10) solemnity and mythmaking amusing, and hopelessly overdone. His intellectual style was sardonic and self-aware: wonderful lights of satire played across it. If he sometimes labored hard at being a hero, or seeming a hero (before his election in 1960, he listened intently to recordings of Winston...
SENTENCED. Truman Capote, 59, author (In Cold Blood) and sardonic, falsetto voice of the glitterati; to three years probation and a $500 fine for drunken driving; in Southampton, N.Y. Capote had been driving with an expired out-of-state license, and the Long Island judge barred him from applying for...
"I DON'T FIND ANYTHING in current events funny anymore," said Tom Lehrer '57 at a recent dinner held in his honor at Lowell House. And this malaise certainly applies to Lehrer's latest effort, Tomfoolery, a revue of 27 of his musical diatribes written between 1955 and 1965. A...
The chaos that the Sandinista economic measures have spread is one reason for the shortages that have allowed sardonic Nicaraguans to dub Managua "the capital of queues." So far as the Sandinistas are concerned, the problem is simply being called "distribution," meaning a chronic short supply of operating buses and...