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"A fine, large-featured, dim-eyed, bronze-coloured, shaggy-headed man is Alfred," wrote Carlyle in 1840, "dusty, smoky, free and easy; who swims outwardly and inwardly, with great composure, in an articulate element as of tranquil chaos and tobacco smoke." Seasoned in the fumes of his own shag, he...
Take Soviet Ballet. Dennis' full-length portrait of Divver belongs in the gallery of great comic figures. In his youth reduced by sneering Manhattan intellectuals to a self-analyzing jelly, Divver believed, or thought he believed, in Freud and historical Forces; his misery reached brilliant heights as he talked...
The Patriotic Communists. Strange and disturbing scenes from the past-some vicious, some tragically funny-rose from the pages of the Government's record. There was irascible old General Stilwell, in 1944, sneering in his reports to Washington over Chiang's reluctance to swallow "the bitter pill of...
Sneering, he went on scourging the lawless, demonstrated his contempt for Harlan County's rulers by roughing up Sheriff Jim Cawood's son, throwing him in jail and accusing him of being drunk during a football game. One of his deputies quit, became chief of police at Evarts...
Lawyer Richard Gladstein popped up. The judge interrupted him: "I see them smiling, sneering and snickering there."