Word: satiricism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The book follows the original's satiric story line but kills its spirit by relentless pursuit of the obvious gag, the single entendre, the rhyme-at-any-cost; e.g., "The air is full of your infidelities," sings Juno. "No? The hell it is," rhymes Jupiter in one of the...
The Comfortable Lead. It was the usual Sullivan variety show with everything thrown in from bears riding bicycles to Harry Belafonte singing spirituals and with something to appeal to every member of the family. Against this onslaught Steve Allen was forced to do a little of the same kind of...
The Cambridge community has been treated with a book composed of sensationalist scandal (resembling a Cambridge Confidential). with the pained, painful cries of an upset individual, and with a series of brilliant insights into the sins and omissions of a group of human beings. Whether it was Mr. Raditsa's...
Among Britain's topflight political cartoonists, L. G. (for Leslie Gilbert) Illingworth, 53, of Punch and London's Daily Mail, was long regarded as one of the best draftsmen, but weak on ideas. In recent months he has gained new attention by his work for Punch, where the...
On Sunday things picked up again with a battery of good shows. Camera Three dealt sensitively with the imagist poetry of Dylan Thomas; Omnibus approached the end of its best TV season with a technically superb visit to Harvard University that featured a strong supporting cast of such alumni as...