Word: satiricism
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Europe is "a baby in its cor--rather a repulsive and fretful brat." Its whims, according to Mr. Douglas, have doomed whatever pretenisons it may ever have had. England in particular is lost: her morals and manners, government and social institutions are all presented in the cold and keenly satiric...
Three years ago George Antheil, Trenton (N. J.)-born composer arrived home from Paris, presented in Manhattan a program of his works which included Ballet Méchanique, scored for ten pianos, xylophones, rattles and whistles. Ballet Méchanique had a frosty reception. Critics hooted and Composer Antheil returned...
Events of the week in Moscow were both comforting and disheartening to believers in God. Comforting was the issuance by the Communist central committee of a ukase which: 1) Expressly forbade the closing of churches except by majority demand of the local population involved; 2) Insisted that the collectivization of...
Dangerous Paradise (Paramount). In the masthead of this film the producers announce that it is "based on incidents from a novel by Joseph Conrad," a guarded statement obviously intended to divert the criticism which, based on incidents from Dangerous Paradise, would be leveled at them if they admitted that the...
The effect of the story is gigantically satiric. But Author Dos Passes has let his book speak for itself: it is not in the material but in his arrangement of it that the artist shows his hand. Author Dos Passes thinks of himself as an historian, tries to give an...