Word: satiricism
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Admittedly, rock 'n roll satire is a pretty tough business. If you get too juvenile people won't realize that you are trying to be satiric. If the music shows too much imagnation, you fail to capture the essence of rock, which is an uncanny tedium of the same basic...
But not all plays dealing with racial themes use them only as salespoints: Ossie Davis' Purlie Victorious and Langston Hughes' Black Nativity are fine works. Indeed, Davis' satiric comedy is the only show on Broadway that is eminently worth seeing.
From the Second City is a Chicago-born revue that jauntily aims a satiric blowgun at beatniks, headline heroes, the University of Chicago, and the company of man, and most of its darts are incontestably funny.
Perhaps the frustrations of a misguided critical appraisal are the reason for Mr. Wilson's new and singularly disturbing novel, The Old Men at the Zoo. What Mr. Wilson has now published is a book that is at once grotesquely savage, brutally satiric, and impersonally destructive of the whole fabric...
But in her talk last night, sponsored by the Poets' Theatre, Miss McCarthy largely avoided the acidulous sting of her satiric fiction. She was not the cruelly self-conscious McCarthy of The Company She Keeps (1942), with its heroine's interminable self-dissection and motive-mongering after making love in...