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...other roles are well handled, and I should like to mention at least Dee Victor (Lady Sneer-well), Olive Dunbar (Lady Candour), Frederic Warriner (Sir Benjamin Backbite), Stanley Jay (Old Rowley), and Robert Evans (Charles Surface). The only jarring notes are contributed by Thomas Hill (Sir Oliver Surface), who, fine as he is in the more realistic modern repertory, cannot attune his diction to the period style required here...
...Nothing is better fun for the nonscholarly reader than Graves's vast sneer at the scholarly mind, given at a Yale lecture. In this mock-solemn legpull, Graves gravely gives a pathologicon of pedants' diseases. Sample: cacography,i.e., bad writing, a scholarly affliction that leads to "the inability of college graduates to read or write." For some extreme types of academic affliction, Graves recommends a Demosthenic treatment: "Fill the sufferer's mouth with pebbles and make him explain his theories in simple language to a mixed audience of Texan cowhands and Boston longshoremen...
...Paramount). Clark Gable is the city editor of a big metropolitan daily, a self-made man whose every word proclaims what can be done with good material by bad workmanship. Doris Day is an instructor of journalism. When she invites Gable to address her class, he replies with a sneer: "In the school I graduated from, there were no lectures without four-letter words in them ... I think you're wasting your time, and I prefer not to waste mine...
...Administration's prestige squarely behind continued foreign aid and took aim on those in and out of Congress who sneer at aid as a "giveaway." Snapped he: "We cannot afford to have one of our most essential security programs shot down with a slogan...
...They call us the Silent Generation," he said with a sneer. "The hydramatic men. We don't speak, we don't act, we don't create." He paused. "We are the spawn of a depression decade; we were old in the cradle...