Word: trenchant
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...sponsors, and producers have read Jack Gould, for he is the television critic of the New York Times. As such, he holds in one hand the biggest machete and in the other the biggest nosegay possessed by any TV critic. Always fair, faultlessly responsible, he is on rare occasions trenchant, and on even rarer ones funny - as he was recently when he hailed Joe Valachi as a style-setter for Hollywood mobsters of the future...
...hour is much more civilized, and allows time for a leisurely breakfast. Two of the best social science courses of the summer, Prof. Louis Hartz' Social Sciences S-118, and Prof. Robert G. McCloskey's Government S-107, are given then. Hartz teaches "Democratic Theory and Its Critics," a trenchant and often brilliant (occasionally too brilliant) examination of the "reconstruction of classical liberal thought." Many have been known to swear by Hartz, as they do by McCloskey, who teaches (in the summer only) "American Political Thought...
Black Fox. Producer-Director Louis Clyde Stoumen has woven in illustrations from Goethe's Reynard the Fox to strike an allegory between the sly Reynard and the scheming Adolf Hitler, and the result is a fresh and trenchant look at Naziism...
...Producer Louis Clyde Stoumen (The Naked Eye), finding new film and skillfully interpolating drawings by Picasso, Grosz, Doré and Wilhelm von Kaulbach, has given the story of those years a new aspect. This Oscar-winning film is not just another post-mortem on Hitler: it is a trenchant commentary on the hows and whys of Naziism...
This is a pity. Despite an occasional ultra-rarefied phrase, Arnold was the most trenchant critic of his century-a fact which has inspired Professor Super's mammoth scholarly edition of all his scattered works. He was also a worldly, witty man whose comments most of the time could apply to the ills of our age as well as to those...