Word: sarcasm
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...Have Not Known Him."Then Eisenhower, whose funnybone is about as small as his wishbone is large, had essayed some heavy sarcasm at the expense of the magna cum laude from Smith. The Peace Corps, he said, is a "juvenile experiment. If you want to take a trip to the moon, why not send a Peace Corps up there? It is an undeveloped country...
...inquisitive and omniscient Julia leads the cast in the merrier of its japes. Again and again, when the play begins to bog down in the cool of Mr. Eliot's emotions, Julia bustles in to start things going again. Priscilla Chamberlayne as Lavinia is also excellent, portraying with heavy sarcasm the role of the Alcestis of the hearth...
...Cryer, as Vera, his high society mistress, rivalled him so closely. Her part was much different, requiring a sophisticated irony and a worldly resignation. Miss Cryer proved herself both singer and actress, entrancing the audience with the cool eroticism of Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered, and handling Vera's jaded sarcasm with elegant ease. Her imitation of a Bronx gun moll in the first act was one of the most intelligent bits of broad humor seen around here in a long, long time...
...angrily denounced the Rockefeller-Nixon truce before Chicago as a "Munich," now calmly ignores the liberal program built into the G.O.P. platform. The Republican platform is, he says, the lesser of two evils. He hard-hits Lyndon Johnson as "the forgotten candidate." He writes off Jack Kennedy with sarcasm: "Sometimes I wonder how Jack gets that sailboat back to harbor...
Jabbing at the G.O.P. claim to greater "experience" in world affairs, Johnson broke into rhetorical questions that dripped sarcasm as a Nathan's Famous drips mustard: "Where is the evidence of their victories and successes in the world we look upon today? Where are the fruits of that maturity and that experience?" In Kennedy's home town of Boston, Johnson seemed to stir far less crowd-pulling curiosity than Cabot Lodge, the Boston Brahmin, on the beaches of Coney...