Word: satiricism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several times in his writing life-in his study of Jesuit Edmund Campion, in Brideshead Revisited, and now in Helena -Author Waugh has tried to clear the satiric brambles out of his literary field, and to plant in their stead the herb of grace. He has had no very impressive...
There is one exception: 61-year-old Joyce Gary, an immensely fertile and gifted English writer whose juicy novels are beginning to win the applause they deserve. While Gary's subject is 20th Century life, his work carries the rich old tone of the 18th Century English novel: the...
After a noon barbecue, members of the orchestra and some of the crew of his special train banded themselves into a "Sad Symphony" of toy ukuleles, kazoos and slide whistles to play satiric take-offs on Wagner, Kabalevsky and Sousa. A waiter sang Ol' Man River and a porters...
Champagne for Caesar (Harry Popkin; United Artists) has a head start over most Hollywood comedies: an original idea with some satiric bite. But it soon grows painfully clear that the idea has fallen into the wrong hands. Setting out to make radio's giveaway craze look silly, the picture...
Felix:-Do you mean my residence or may place of employment? Felix, by this ridiculous use of formal language, not only gains a point over the questioner, but provides a satiric framework for his former official use of precisely the same type of phrase.