Word: sneer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laughs. The Russians promptly reacted, with a sneer from Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky. He laughed (see INTERNATIONAL...
...honor or loyalty left in the land ... I would say one thing: 'Take off your blinders and look toward the future. The worst danger we face is the danger of being paralyzed by doubts and fears. This danger is brought on by those who abandon faith and sneer at hope . . .' Yet, at heart, I do not greatly fear such men, for they have always been with us, and in the long run they have always failed...
Puff explains the grosser absurdities of his play to Sneer, played only adequately by Thayer David, stating quite simply: "It's a rule!" Indeed the rules seem to apply quite aptly to the ordinary drama, though not to Sheridan. For "The Critic" sweeps through a duel, a reenactment of the British fleet subduing the Spanish Armada, and a scene in which Nancy Marchand goes mad with her "confidante" Jan Farrand mimicking her exquisitely. In a grand boffola ending Brittania is lowered from the ceiling by a block and tackle. Andrew E. Norman
Much credit is due to TIME for the excellent May 14 review of Henry P. Van Dusen's book God in Education. Such a book is more than welcome today when too many self-styled educators either sneer at religion or contemptuously dismiss it as a bundle of myths...
...police stood by passively and the army held back, they took control of the city. Toward evening a car fetched Perón from the hospital. Finally, Pern and President Farrell appeared together on the palace balcony. The crowd roared. An afternoon newspaper had printed pictures of the demonstrators sneeringly titled: "The shirtless ones [descamisados] who roam our streets." Now Perón caught up the sneer as a weapon, shouted that he wanted to clasp all such descamisados to his bosom. Ever since, Peronistas have celebrated the day of the descamisados' loyalty...