Word: satiricism
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Books of verse worth looking into: John Betjeman's Slick But Not Streamlined, mildly satiric and pleasing pieces by a little-known Englishman; Stephen Spender's Poems of Dedication, grave and moving but often prosy; Karl Shapiro's Trial of a Poet, explorations into the relation of...
Died. Samuel Hoffenstein, 57, master writer of satiric light verse (Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A wry-writing favorite of Manhattan's wry-minded literary set in the late '20s, Hoffenstein (who had written, I'd rather listen to...
Rambling through a novel of Ludwig Bemelmans is like eating in an expensive Viennese tea shop. The descriptions are like cups of rich chocolate, topped with heavy whipped cream; the plot is as easy to get through as the flaky Austrian pastry; but later on the gourmet may feel that...
Whether Evans himself comes off so well beside his refurbished cast is a debatable point. In the incomparable conversational scenes he carries the counterpoint off very well, the satiric and comic lines coming through especially effectively. In the soliloquies, however, the incredible monotony of Evans' style, his constant reliance on...
Black Hole. As a writer of fiercely topical satire for a windblown medium, Allen has acquired, in spite of his protests, considerable stature. His work has an angry, big-city clank, a splashy neon idiom and a sort of 16-cylinder poetry. Like a well-barbered, satiric Buddha, he squats...