Word: satiricism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Young and Beautiful (by Sally Benson). Laid in Chicago in 1915, this stage blend of Scott Fitzgerald stories concerns a teen-age beauty who seems, in her blasé posturings, an early Jazz-Age young thing. She yearns for the perfect love, and in the search for it no...
Between percussioned boredom in the suburbs and rural depravity in the South, All in One offers Paul Draper's clean and stylish tap dancing. Draper seems to have grown more versatile, particularly on the satiric side; but what remains uniquely his is the tapping to classical themes, the suggestion...
Stuffed Flues. Galileo Galilei was born in 1564, a vintage year of the Renaissance that saw the birth of Shakespeare and the death of Michelangelo. He was himself one of the last universal figures of the age. At 22, he produced a hydrostatic balance (a device for measuring the specific...
Practical Joke. The Confidence-Man is a satiric picaresque allegory that indicts not only man's inhumanity to man, but, as Melville saw it, God's as well. The theme and mood of the novel are caught in a line from Moby Dick: "There are certain queer times...
The Wayward Saint has the materials for a delicate satiric fantasy; in spots it boasts nice, imaginative touches and humorous lines, and in Irish Actor Liam Redmond it has an expertly lovable canon.