Word: sneering
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...first, little more than a series of character sketches, is laid in the home of one Dangle, portrayed ably but with a faintly incongruous accent by James Matisoff. Here, in addition to Puff, another aspiring author named Fret, played by Marc Brugnoni, and a gentleman-about-town called Sneer, portrayed by Robert Jordan, needle each other with polished skill. But Thomas Teal, as a horse-faced and impassive servant, all but steals the scene as the helps his master ceremoniously slip on a corset...
...Savoy Hotel. Reported Daily Telegraph Newshen Winifred Carr, dolefully: "I've had my eyes well and truly opened about men, after watching a roomful of the most critical, cynical and sophisticated males in town, hard-bitten journalists, act like adolescents. Even those who had come to sneer were hanging on her words like impressionable schoolboys and laughing at her wit before she had completed a sentence." Glowed the Daily Mirror: "Marilyn Monroe, the sleek, the pink and the beautiful, captured Britain...
...lecture at Oxford. "I am conscious of my madness; therefore I am truly wise." Thus he lived and performed, an honored enigma. At one time, his work and his person seemed to have the embroidered smile of a saint on a religious banner; at another, the proud sneer of a Spanish beggar...
Until he was 16, Pianist Gulda joined his long-haired colleagues in a general sneer for jazz. But he found himself listening to records of Count Basie and Duke Ellington, and gradually his attitude changed. Last year, between concert tours (he has played four times in Carnegie Hall), he organized a group of musicians in Vienna, wrote out jazz-style counterpoint for them and made a series of broadcasts. American Jazz Buff John Hammond, who had a significant part in the careers of Basie and Benny Goodman, listened to off-the-air recordings and flipped for joy. He helped Gulda...
...solution is rich in irony, richer still in its humanity. The hero, when all is said and done, has accepted the pattern. Playwright Serling does not sneer at him, and he does not sneer at the pattern. Big Business is not the villain of Serling's piece. There is no villain. There is only the same big world, and another little man who gets lost...