Word: sarcasm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taste for the historically unusual and bizarre, and his interests are considerably more lively than the antiquarian's. Owen's lecture, "On Behalf of Scrooge," delivered two years ago at the Signet Society, and recently published in the Alumni Bulletin, is an illustration not only of his good-humored sarcasm, but also of the strange uses to which he occasionally puts history. Castigating the commercialism of Christmas, and defending Scrooge to the last, he wrote; "'Humbug' was a less than adequate comment on the Christmas saturnalia.... What, one may ask, but a sense of social responsibility could have inspired Scrooge...
Dulles, casting aside the careful sarcasm and barbed debating points he had been tossing through the week at Molotov, made a plea for the unity and trust that once joined Russia and the West in war against aggression. He spoke of Germany's right to live again and the world's right to assurances that she will live peacefully...
...opposition with a quip. When Critic John Ruskin dared criticize Whistler's paintings too harshly, the devilish dandy sued him for libel. Among the evidence presented at the trial was Whistler's Batter sea Bridge (opposite). Looking at it. the judge made the mistake of using sarcasm-Whistler's favorite weapon. The following dialogue took place...
Second Generation. At 45, Reuther (rhymes with Luther) is the best known and most resourceful leader in the C.I.O. His ability is not questioned, but many labor (and industry) leaders deplore his tendency toward labor statesmanship, a phrase sometimes used in labor circles with a heavy charge of sarcasm. Though he can be intensely practical when necessary, Reuther is an inveterate shaper of far-reaching "Reuther plans," which to most labor leaders seem to deal with matters outside labor's province. His tendency is to make a specific union issue a springboard for broad social and economic questions...
...floor of the Bundestag, where he deftly maneuvers a bloc of 130 Socialist Deputies (against some 200 who normally stand by Adenauer), Schumacher evokes the same feelings. With painful-looking gestures, hissing sentences, here a lightning jab and there a sour sarcasm, he seems-whether he means to or not- the reincarnation of the rabble-rousers who all but destroyed his own body and led Germany down to catastrophe...