Word: trenchant
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...trenchant analysis of scenario writers has brought the fascinating revelation that we win, primarily, not because the brass is so clever, but because our enemies are abysmally dumb. No piece of stupidity eludes them, and the dimmest of heroic intellects is more than a match for the whole general staff of any anti-U.S. army. Furthermore, Providence (Division of North American Affairs) has arranged that those nations that are first the enemies and then the allies of the United States regain their wits in time to help defeat the next moronic aggressor...
...have yet to see a more trenchant and cogent treatment of Southern politics and the American party system than that which appeared in your cover story on Dick Russell [TIME, May 19]. A first-rate piece of political analysis...
...Prayed Considerable." The most trenchant questioning came not from the disorganized Republicans but from two anti-Administration Democrats. Georgia's Walter George demanded why it was, when U.S. policy was not to allow Formosa to fall into hostile hands, that the U.S. "came very near doing it" when it voted for the U.N. cease-fire offer in January. That cease-fire offer proposed that the fate of Formosa be discussed by a body which would include four specified nations-Russia, Communist China, Britain and the U.S.-a peculiar foursome in which only the U.S. was at all willing...
...Republican majority in Congress had made its position clear. But not all Republicans applauded. The Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram and Sun, long a trenchant critic of Acheson's Asiatic policy, objected: "The Republican caucuses give the impression that our country is divided. As a matter of fact, on matters important, our country is united. Our country is more important than the Administration's face, or Mr. Acheson's face, or the Republican Party's face . . . We're dealing now in terms of blood & iron...
Though Bernard Shaw has called Strindberg "the only genuine Shakespeare modern dramatist," there is no need to go to the Plymouth in either a devotional or dutiful attitude. What you will see is a bitter, provocative, misogynic drama matched with a trenchant performance...