Word: satirist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...please leave us to our own interpretation of the works of Al Capp [TIME, Sept. 13]- undoubtedly the most brilliant satirist of our era. His genius defies interpretation . . . Like fine music, Capp's cartoons mean many things to many people. Don't spoil...
...future society or imaginary land (Edward Bellamy, Sir Thomas More) has often been used as a vehicle to show what a wonderful Utopia awaits man. In Huxley's hand this form becomes a desperate, overworked and sometimes incoherent jeremiad directed against a destruction-bent, unheeding world. As a satirist, Huxley has neither Swift's passion nor Celine's gusto; he simply can't stand the world any more, not even enough to pillory...
...attitude toward death that English Satirist Evelyn Waugh would approve (TIME, July 12). Milles is a follower of the late spiritualist, Sir Oliver Lodge...
With such unpleasant people to pillory, and New York's pseudo-society and phony-intellectual scene to prowl about in, a sharp satirist should be able to get in some telling licks. But Van Gelder simply hasn't the satirist's spark, nor even a malicious ear for dialogue, without which good satire is impossible...
...After all, if he is ever to mature as a satirist, he must stop tickling the public's toes, and start cutting its throats...