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With rhetorical sarcasm, the U.S. Secretary of State asked at Berlin: "Who is this Chou...
Said Jenkins, his voice heavy with sarcasm: "That is one phase of this investigation about which your memory hasn't failed you?" Said Stevens: "It certainly...
...engage its own troops . . .They sent money and material to Indo-China-but left the French to do the fighting. They are ready to arm any country to fight the Russians-and if necessary command their forces for them!" For U.S. Secretary of State Dulles, he had sarcasm and condescension: "When Mr. Foster Dulles conjured up in Paris the ghost of a dramatic revision of American policy ... I am sure he could not help smiling. With the same smile, I answer him today: 'Do not mind us, dear friend. Go right ahead...
...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...
...Owen's sarcasm is usually received in the good spirit with which it is intended. Last year, however, the strain proved too much for one lonely Anglophile who had strayed into History 142. As Owen was busily ripping into the British aristocracy, the student rose from his set, and pointing his finger dramatically, accused the professor of being unfair to the upper classes. Such incidents are indeed rare, and his lectures receive almost legendary accolades. Owen finds Harvard men "not a particularly docile lot, but reasonable when backed into a corner...