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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...
...George Jean Nathan from his aisle seat. If that departure came (as it did all too often) at the end of the second act, financial disaster loomed ahead. For his abrasive wit in demolishing flimflam and fraud, his impish pride in prejudice, and not least for his ability to hone a sharper line than most of the playwrights he panned, slight (5 ft. 7 in., 130 1bs.), white-thatched First Nighter Nathan was one of Broadway's most feared and lonely figures. In a rain of newspaper columns, magazine articles and books, he aimed his dyspeptic darts at every...
...hates to be outguessed, hates even more to lose. He remained squatly in his corner of the bench-not because he was calm but because he was a catcher. As a catcher, he had learned to do his thinking in a crouch. It is a posture that seems to hone the intellect. For catchers, once they have mastered the mask, chest pads and other "tools of ignorance," seem to make the grade as big-league managers almost as consistently as big-time businessmen make the team on Republican Cabinets. The bright tradition runs way back to the late Connie Mack...
...American living in Italy, I wish to express my gratitude and admiration for Mrs. Luce . . . We know of these frightful facts of juvenile delinquency in our country, but I seriously doubt the patriotism of men, who, in their hone of gaining a prize, would show a film exposing, even facts, which must lower the" respect and admiration for our country in foreign lands...
Bell Labs, looking ahead, is experimenting with them for charging the storage batteries of rural tele 'hone lines. Frames of them set on poles at Americus, Ga. are performing well, but Bell is worried about the effects of indifferent birds and stone-throwing boys...