Word: satiricism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether the page would live up to its encouraging prospectus was for time to tell, but it got off to a brisk, bright start. Sharpened and punctuated with illustrations. Herald Tribune editorials subpoenaed the ghost of Joe McCarthy for a satiric soliloquy, thrice peppered Jimmy ("Public Enemy No. 1") Hoffa...
"Just Honestly." Loyal fans were not dying to have them go. They would not soon forget bald, bulb-nosed-Kukla and mischievous Ollie. the one-toothed dragon who could not breathe tire because his father swallowed too much water swimming the Hellespont. Or sensitive Fletcher Rabbit, who complained when he...
Britain's weekly Punch, then 112 years old, was acting its age when ex-Newsman (Daily Telegraph) Malcolm Muggeridge became the first outsider to take over the editor's chair in 1953. Muggeridge swept out the stale sweets of fuddy-duddy whimsy, reverted to an older Punch tradition...
Bernice the Breadwinner. After Harvard, Cozzens hibernated in Canada for a while on a publisher's handout of $15 a week, finished a mawkish Elizabethan historical romance (Michael Scarlett), taught some American sugar planters' children English and math in Cuba, junketed around Europe as tutor to a 14...
Knock's bored aloofness instead of swaggering magnetism mars the second act and destroys the delicate balance between comedy and satire. In place of a series of quick, witty repartees between Knock and his clients, we have a succession of labored interviews which destroy the comic and bury the satiric...