Word: satiricism
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Though he looks like a British version of Mr. Peepers, the likeness ends there. Theater Critic Bernard Levin is the enfant terrible of London's West End. Long the Manchester Guardian's television reviewer, he grew "weary of spitting into the wind" in 1958 and quit. As an...
The Realist styles itself "the fire hydrant of the underdog," and runs satiric articles on current affairs. The issue in question contained an article by George Lincoln Rockwell, commander of the American Nazi Party, a number of jokes and cartoons, many directed against Roman Catholics, and some off-color humor...
Beyond the Fringe chips away at petrified people, calcified cliches and sacrosanct cows with remarkable satiric finesse. Four young and infectiously funny Englishmen perform the iconoclastic surgery.
Beyond the Fringe chips away at petrified people, calcified clichés, and sacrosanct cows with remarkable satiric finesse. Four young and infectiously funny Englishmen perform the iconoclastic surgery.
Beyond the Fringe is, loosely, a sort of relaxed review, and it is the work of four inventive young Englishmen, two of them Oxford graduates, two from Cambridge, all of whom are no older than twenty-eight. The four are Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, and...