Word: sneers
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...Russian, six English) and translations of other writers' work. His fiction differs from most novels in much the same way that a poem differs from a political treatise. One is an end in itself. The other, however intricate and elegant, is a means to an end. In a classic sneer...
Desecrate the highways with your abominable posters, if that is your fancy. Laugh at our valiant invasion of Anguilla. Sneer at De Gaulle. Even make friends with the Ruskies. All these will I forgive thee, but knock the Block? Never...
...such as when he demonstrates the ways of a fag judo instructor or a kiddies television show emcee. As this emcee, called Buttons and with a ludicrous costume to match the name, Buckman gets to lead the audience in a song that would make even Art Linkletter sneer. The lyrics are a sharp play on the worst genre of pop music ("I like to ride on a reindeer/Wouldn't you like to, too?/Wouldn't you like to hold the rein, dear, on my reindeer, dear?/It never rains, it only snows with you."), and Buckman delivers them with such...
...procedure on recruitment"; the willingness of the faculty to consider carefully the merits of open meetings. He attempts to present Harvard administration policy in terms of Marcuse's "repressive tolerance": call the demonstration "the most serious since I've been here" (Dean Ford), threaten unlimited punishment, and then sneer at the number of people who stayed. And finally, he attempts to pin our action on Hilary Putnam. That's pretty foul for a kindly uncle. Hutch Jenness...
...presence. He looks the way Buster Keaton may have as a child-and like a child, he loves to show off and mimic. He is so obviously pleased with himself when he apes Groucho Marx's loping stance or speaks with W. C. Fields' adenoidal sneer that it is difficult for anyone in the audience not to be pleased with him. It is the kind of cool, well-finessed stunting with which a clever boy might regale a proud mother. As such, it is always audience-conscious rather than play-and co-player-oriented, the last two again...