Word: sardonicism
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The Crimson sometimes has a box of news which it labels, "The Real World." Perhaps it is being sardonic. Yet the editors should learn some economics. For one day, to their dismay, they will wake up in "the real world" and then what will they say? Will Kistil '73
This classic plot does not sound funny and much of it is not, but a good deal of it is. Chekhov's compassion for his characters' bruised hearts never blurred the amused clinical eye he focuses on their petty, self-deluding foibles. Chekhov frowned on directors who made...
Bruce Cation's father was the principal of Benzonia Academy, where cows roamed the campus. Yet obviously the older Catton was a man of some wis dom and sardonic humor. Once, after working unsuccessfully against a county election proposition allowing the sale of liquor, he was asked how he...
PLAYED AT ITS BEST, Bertolt Brecht's work has the beauty and finesse of a perfectly constructed essay. Its proclaimed intention to be an entertainment of ideas emphasizes its immediacy and relevance; its values cannot be dismissed as belonging to a dramatized world unto itself. The current production of Brecht...
Director Jean Kalavski makes an admirable effort at bringing Hanley's moralistic and melodramatic period place to life. But weaknesses in the acting make an already difficult task impossible. Ira Flak's interpretation of Glas's impassivity often turns to feeble characteriessness. Michael Russell's Randalf is strong, if monotonous...