Word: satiricism
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Gridiron merrymaking follows a peculiarly American pattern. Nowhere else could so many watch the faces of a President, his Cabinet and Supreme Court Justices taking lampoonery aimed right between their eyes. In one satiric skit, Gridironers ribbed U.S. foreign policy aboard "The Acheson, the Clayton & the James F. Byrnes." In...
Rome's humorous weekly Cantachiaro (Chanticleer) has crowed impudently ever since liberation. It has no political ties, boasts that it is an "anti" periodical. Under youthful, clever Editor Franco Monicelli, it has flung satiric articles and slapstick cartoons at whomever and whatever it pleases, not stopping at the Italian...
Next day the Communist Unità gave out a screech that smothered Cantachiaro's crow: "A weekly paper which calls itself satiric and anti-Fascist printed yesterday the complete text of Mussolini's speech, thus offering readers a most beautiful piece of Fascist propaganda. . . . This is an act...
Only three Americans were there, but their presence was significant. Along with 867 Russians last week, they witnessed the start of a new phase in U.S.-Soviet relations. Russia threw a fast satiric punch at the U.S., and the three Americans hardly knew how to take it.
For all that, The Seven Lively Arts is quite a show. It has, to begin with, the finest comedienne on the stage today, Beatrice Lillie. Back to Broadway after five years abroad, but saddled with unworthy material, Actress Lillie performs one of the greatest feats of theatrical alchemy on record...