Word: satiricism
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This gives Author Ian Brook (a pseudonym) plenty of opportunity to rib the retreating Empire right up to No. 10 Downing Street, and to fire deft, satiric shots at everybody from an American anthropologist studying illiteracy among Alabasa's albinos to the new class of boorish, lawyer-bred African...
75, boasts a lineage that goes back to England's Plantagenet kings (1154-1485) and a memory that goes back almost as far. Last week, when she opened an invitation from one Villiers David to a showing of his watercolors, the name struck a familiar chord. In a twinkling...
THE SECRET SPEECH, by John Robinson Beal (138 pp.; Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.50), is a satiric political fantasy that looks ahead to Khrushchev's overthrow, as explained by his imaginary successor, Comrade Dmitri Pushkov. (Khrushchev's fate is only hinted at: he becomes manager of the State Circus...
fact that people publish which are very refined gives interesting support to Bell's . Parody, except in the rare where it is vicious or satiric, useful or even destructively purpose. Few people use it a writer's reputation, or to build it up. It is just fun, a sophisticated and...
Rudolf Forster plays Macheath with perfect self-satiric detachment and ingratiating charm, and Carola Neher manages Polly's changing character very subtly. Despite my regrets about the movie's confusion both in purpose and details, I found it delightful. It captures the bitter, ironic, and warm humor of the original...