Word: snideness
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...with all recent literary endeavors, gttf 1 does not require criticism, but eight or nine or ten inches of review. To say that gttf 1 is not worth one dollar would be snide, but much worse, naive. No, gttf 1 is atavistic, primitivistic, fancifulistic, and satiristic. What more...
Yesterday's edition contained a letter by an editor of the Daily Princetonian asking about Harvard's "big men on Campus." At the letter's end you commented that "Harvard has no Campus." This snide remark simply points out a serious failing--the College has no strong leadership and thus no big men on Campus...
...barnstorming for the Republicans, had an interesting comment: "I come from a traveling family-and the standards are still set by my mother." In New Jersey, Democrat Adlai Stevenson said that Vice President Richard Nixon had campaigned with "smut, smear and slander." In California, Republican Nixon said Stevenson was "snide and snobbish...
...audiences and special groups invited by mail (such as dog owners for Ken-L-Ration commercials). The viewers turn in reports to determine how much of the sales message is retained. Since most of his business comes from corporations checking on their ad agencies, he naturally hears many a snide comment about his work from Madison Avenue's and alley. Retorts Schwerin: "Agencies must realize that they can no longer . . . play this medium by the seat of their pants...
Humor, and especially Benchley's humor, has no commonly accepted high point. The preamble can be as funny as the punch line, if there is any, and each story is up to the individual. If the individual likes it snide, he can have it; if he likes it zany, it's here. Long, short, tall, reserved, stupid, odd, out-of-place, out-of-taste, all of them are here--almost ninety of them...