Word: macdonalds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Convinced that "there has never been a case where you could have greater sympathy with the people." Donald C MacDonald, Jr '61, of Dudley House and Brighton, today begins a projected week long hunger strike to protest the imprisonment of Mrs. Olga Ivinskaya, long-time friend of the late Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak...
...MacDonald, a senior in government who specializes in Russian affairs, said yesterday that he hoped others would protest the action, but did not want the responsibility for leading mass support: "I just want to make my voice heard." He said that "since no law or decency as we know it exists under Soviet rule, the only hope that Mrs. Ivinskaya has is that a great protest can be directed against Khrushchev...
Parodies-An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm and After, edited by Dwight Macdonald. With wit and a leaven of malice, the editor has compiled and annotated the best collection yet of that curious art in which the pen is wielded while the thumb is fixed firmly to the nose...
Parodies, an Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm and After, edited by Dwight Macdonald. With wit and a leaven of malice, the editor has compiled and annotated the best collection yet of that curious art in which the pen is wielded while the thumb is fixed firmly to the nose...
...Macdonald takes a dour view of the future of this comic ghoul among the arts. Life, he seems to think, is getting beyond a joke. "The real world has become so fantastic that satire, of which parody is a subdivision, is discouraged because reality outdistances it. What can a satirist add to the U2-Summit-Meeting fiasco? Or to the dealings between the United Nations and Premier Lumumba of the Congo Republic-the latter a character right out of Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief? Indeed, in the Congo tragicomedy, history seems to be parodying itself...