Word: sarcasms
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...novelist. But "Ariel" is his only biography which can be accused of being "novelized." If he has any faults, his chief one, as he himself admits, is probably politeness. Mr. Maurois has become too well acquainted with his subject to be other than grateful. That is why the aloof sarcasm of Strachey is largely absent. Mr. Maurois attempts at all times to understand. In "A Private Universe" he gives advice to young Frenchmen departing for England and America. "Give logic a rest while you are over there," he tells the first. "But enjoy the general spectacle." To the second: "Fashion...
Perhaps Florence Crabbe may not believe it, but it is true that when James Montgomery Flagg attended the Art Students' League during the '90s he was spoken of as "The Beautiful Youth," and with no sarcasm attached to it either. I must confess that when I looked at the cut in the March 21 issue of TIME I could hardly realize that he was the same Flagg who used to attract so much attention for his good looks, the Flagg with the straight, slender figure and the quiet manner touched with just a bit of blaze...
...Kenyon) of a colonial doctor whose headgear alone would almost have been grounds for desertion. Derived from a briefly exhibited drama called Heat Wave, the picture shows its hero bearing the white man's burden with superfluous fortitude and increasing its weight by disguising his nobility with sophomoric sarcasm. Touted as a ladies' man because he once acted as co-respondent in divorce proceedings, he is pestered by the habitues of an insular country club in the Far East. The males suspect him of a willingness to make free with their wives and daughters, a suspicion which...
Today Ogden Mills is no longer the aggressive, arrogant young man who tried to bulldoze his House colleagues with scorching sarcasm delivered with a high nasal drawl. He has grown affable, friendly, almost democratic. He listens politely to other people's views and opinions, is ready to accept their suggestions. Age has mellowed him, changed enemies to friends...
Painted in 1787, twelve years after Artist David won the Prix de Rome, it relates, in the same mood of admiration, the story which was incorporated in perhaps the finest of Plato's dialogs-how Socrates, imprisoned after an unfair trial in which his sarcasm frightened but antagonized his judges, met death calmly, almost gaily. His illustration showed Socrates reaching for a cup of hemlock with one hand and pointing toward an ungracious sky with the other, while eight of his disciples, in attitudes of profound dejection, surrounded the couch on which he had composed himself for his final...