Word: satiricism
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A few younger poets were worth reading: Randall Jarrell's Losses, an honest try at putting wartime experience into verse; John Berryman's The Dispossessed, technically impressive but marred by self-pity ; Peter Viereck's Terror and Decorum, flippant and satiric.
Musical backdrop, suggesting the satiric parallel between 1700 and 1948, was composed especially for the production by Nicholas Van Slyck 2G, director of the Harvard Chamber Music orchestra. Slyck, a student of Walter Piston, worked 14 hours a day for two weeks turning out the complete musical score which he...
The early questions had a satiric turn:
The show has its very real assets: Nanette Fabray who, without losing one whit of her looks, keeps gaining in versatility and charm; and Ray Middleton, who has both voice and personality. It has some admirably lively and stylish Michael Kidd dances. It has one of Kurt Weill's...
Small Wonder (produced by George Nichols III) is a pleasantly wobbly little revue whose good moments don't come quite often enough. When it turns into a satiric shooting gallery, Small Wonder is frequently very lively fun. But when it takes to warbling ready-made love ditties, or to...