Word: satiricism
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Last week a Manhattan gallery put on a show by six veterans, in which the standout painting was Levine's Welcome Home -a satiric study of a beribboned and be-napkined general at a banquet. Explained Levine: "Some officers lived in a world of their own creation. This general...
A.P.H. was never better. His satiric jingles had a near-Gilbertian nip & skip. After his first jab, a hilarious hymn to The Good Old Days ("The women wore a little more and beer was alcoholic"), he quickly took a swipe at Socialism: We love our country but we hate The...
Died. Countee Cullen, 42, lyric satiric* Negro poet (Copper Sun, My Lives and How I Lost Them) and novelist (One Way to Heaven); of uremic poisoning; in Manhattan. Cullen's early work was informed with a sense of suffering, his late with a sense of humor-he said it...
The Would-Be Gentleman (adapted from Moliére's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Bobby Clark; produced by Michael Todd) was for 276 years a satiric comedy. Last week it became a slaphappy farce. Adapter Clark first cut up Moliére's tale of an upstart boob...
The Author. At 24, Evelyn Waugh proclaimed his unflagging aversion to 20th Century technological civilization in a learned, nostalgic study of those 19th Century enemies of technology, the Pre-Raphaelites (Rossetti: His Life and Works). His dislike of the modern world and his satiric discernment of the kind of people...