Word: satiricism
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Against World War I and the world that put up with it, Poet Richard Aldington has nursed one of the most protracted literary angers of his time. Like other English writers who fought and survived, he was unable to bring his mind fully to bear on his war experience until...
What Poland had to watch calmly last week (with not nearly enough gas masks to go around, due to the Government's all-for-the-Army emergency economy) was a succession of border intrusions, in which many observers saw true Nazi rhythm. From Germany, from East Prussia, even by...
Professor Winspear became suspicious of the Socratic tradition when he noticed that Socrates was described differently by Aristophanes than by Plato. In his satiric play, The Clouds, Aristophanes pictured Socrates as a ragged leader of the rabble, a Sophist, "a thoroughly subversive influence." Pondering this contradiction, Professor Winspear next noticed...
In spite of its poisonous title, "Hold That Coed," current offering of the Keith Memorial Theatre, surprises as a near-uproarious satire. There are frequent dull moments, particularly when Hollywood gives its standard expose of how college students live, but the most of the situations are either so ridiculous or...
¶ Mighty Sages of the Feature Pages, fast satiric patter by three impersonators of Westbrook Pegler, Walter Lippmann, Boake Carter.