Word: scoundrel
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...they suggest not a scalpel but an embroidery needle. Moreover, Fry is so unsimple with language that he can never really be complex about people. His deserter who sees himself "reduced to one dimension," has nowhere been raised to even two. Indeed, the cardboard flatness of Fry's scoundrel almost foredooms the play as drama. And Tyrone Power acts him with forthright but misguided vigor: what the part needs is sinuousness and style. For the serenities of the countess, Katharine Cornell's personal graciousness is more in accord...
...declare that the Berlin conference (which led to Geneva) was a mistake. Then, he was overruled by Dulles and Bidault. Salisbury still holds two truths to be self-evident: 1) that British foreign policy should never diverge far from U.S. policy; 2) that it never pays to appease a scoundrel, whether fascist or communist...
...enough to say that someone is anti-Communist to win my support. It has been said that patriotism is the scoundrel's last refuge. In this day and age, anti-Communism is sometimes the scoundrel's first defense . . . One of the noisiest anti-Communists of recent history was a man named Adolf Hitler. He was not wrong because he was antiCommunist. He was wrong because he was immorally anti-Communist . . . and inevitably, [he] was a dismal failure...
...confessional scatterbursts, the old scoundrel tells all. Nosing out some little-known scandal about-some well-known man, Crome would disguise it thinly in two or three chapters of a projected second novel, submit it to the victim through a go-between, and cheerfully agree to suppress it for a price. After World War I, Blackmailer Crome ruefully relates, the British upper classes lost their manners as well as their money, and his brand of crime no longer paid...
insisted on trading with Communist China until a U.S. embargo stopped him. Rugged Individualist Isbrandtsen once remarked: "You are almost a scoundrel to be in business these days." Died. Oren Edgar ("Kickapoo Ed") Summers, 68, oldtime Detroit Tiger pitcher (1908-12), whose 18-inning scoreless game (pitched in 1909, against the Washington Senators) still stands as a record; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Indianapolis...