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Satire, according to the dictionary, lumbers along a gamut from hone wit to loud noise, trisected in equal parts of irony, ridicule, and bitterness. Satire has to bear the burden of both entertainment and enlightenment. And to be effective, it should be written from some superior vantage--such as talent...
...worth of such attempts of communication with the public can be illustrated by a comparison of two neighboring school districts in, again, Westchester County, N.Y. (Westchester, fabled to possess in all its towns and cities the best of all possible school systems, actually runs the gamut from outstanding to abominable, and is thus a suitable area for illustration and internal comparison.) The Board of Education of Mamaroneck decided several years ago that it was time to build an addition to the high school, held meetings and forums, convinced the daily paper to carry stories on the building, and with...
...appearing as regularly as once a month--and some of those are mimeographed. Advertising, shorthand, auto shop, and a half-term of empirical economics teaching you how to avoid being gypped when you purchase an automobile--these are the trade and social courses which compose the high school academic gamut...
Estimated to be the largest reunion in Harvard history, the 25th will run a week's gamut of luncheons, tours, concerts, wining and dining, and sports from swimming to golf--with social head-quarters at the Hasty Pudding-Institute...
...Levant Show repels some people and delights most. Drawing on his motley acquaintance, Levant has corralled both name stars and intellectuals as his guests. Eddie Cantor was followed by Christopher Isherwood, Adolphe Menjou by Aldous Huxley, Red Skelton by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. His subjects run the gamut from highly intellectual topics to brutal digs. Isherwood told him: "You are like a Dostoevsky character-completely unmasked at all times...