Word: satiricism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First prize winner in the Bowdoin Awards is Ivan Nabokoff '53. Nabokoff gets $500 for his essay, "Alms for Oblivion: John Marston's Dutch Courtezan and the Satiric Drama."
Donise Mangravite, in the role of Mabel, needs nothing but slightly stronger volume to make her perfect as a Gilbert and Sullivan heroine. With a clear, lilting voice she toys with the satiric words and music, never dragging, and always aware of her position as an actress. Elizabeth Kalkhuret, in...
My 3 Angels is one more comedy that tickles conventional morality with a straw and makes respectability turn out its pockets. But it is much less ironic or satiric than just gloriously improbable; it is a fairy tale in which people commit murder as though it were Drop the Handkerchief...
Hazel Flagg (book by Ben Hecht; music & lyrics by Jule Styne and Bob Hillard) is generally cheerful, insistently lavish and notably loud. Based on Nothing Sacred, a satiric Ben Hecht movie of the '30s the story tells of a vast fraud: a young Vermont girl pretends to be dying...
In Babbitt, Main Street and other novels, Sinclair Lewis broke through the lace curtain of gentility and poured satiric wrath on the American Yahoo-but later he failed to realize that the fight he had fought was over and won. In his articles he kept shadow-boxing at opponents he...