Word: satiricism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the fact thaat some of the dialogue is quite dated now, Kaufman's satiric wit bites through like a whiplash, and such lines as "Marriage isn't a career. It's an incident!'" are timelessly funny. The Tufts players seem to be having a wonderful time doing this period...
Awake and dreaming, Tanner-Don Juan is one of the greatest comic roles in the modern theatre. Its difficulty is compounded by the fact that though Tanner is the hero of the play and Don Juan its most eloquent spokesman, both of them, Tanner especially, serve also as satiric butts...
Making his Broadway debut. Radio Disk Jockey Richard Hayes is a personable and vocally authoritative Brad, but the show suffers from a split personality. In Act I, it hunts with the hipsters; in Act II, it dines by candlelight with the squares. By musical's end, the satiric fumes...
Is getting up with the lark good advice for the young? Yes, agrees Mark Twain slyly, "if you get yourself the right kind of a lark and work him right, you can easily train him to get up at 9:30 every time." What about bad habits? Twain is an...
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. A satiric fantasy about an Englishman, instead of the beastly colonials, winning the West. Jayne Mansfield is a restless native.