Word: satiristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Novelist John P. Marquand was the guest of honor at a luncheon last week in his old home town of Newburyport, Mass., attended by 200 of New England's top businessmen. But, as the nation's leading satirist later confessed, he was not quite sure why he had been honored. Novelist Marquand might have wondered still more if he had turned his satiric eye on the group which honored him, and which he had joined only shortly before. Its name: the Newcomen Society of England in North America...
...opera bouffe, the novel is first-rate. Tereso swaggers in appropriate blockhead style; Fausta's romances, high & low, are drawn with Moravia's usual skill for capturing the flavors of sensuality; Perro is a neat reincarnation of the Machiavellian villain. As satire, the book fails. The true satirist's fierce involvement seems to be missing. Stendhal, despite his air of urbane weariness, kept scoring points against Bourbonism. Moravia seems to write from no particular point of view...
...effort to bring him to a wider audience, three of Aleichem's books have been translated into English in recent years. The first two (TIME, June 24, 1946 and Jan. 31, 1949), collections of stories, revealed him as a tender satirist and a wild humorist who sometimes capered off into the topsy-turvy world of surrealism. The third book, Wandering Star, is a rambling, picaresque novel about the life of Yiddish actors in the Europe of 50 or 60 years ago. Aleichem wrote best in the story form, but Wandering Star, for all its meandering pace, is often...
...would like to take this opportunity to express my sympathy at the passing of a great American satirist As the last bastion in defense of the vanishing American man, he, almost alone, valiantly bore the struggle on his capable shoulders. With little help but a great deal of sympathy from his own species he struck terrible blows at the gods of matrimony, offering a smile of hope to the beleaguered American male. But, as is the inevitable lot of those who would scoff at the goddess Venus, he fell victim to the very thing he fought . . . This great satirist...
Aubrey Menen is a half-Irish, half-Hindu satirist who likes nothing better than to undo the mental shoelaces of the English. In The Prevalence of Witches, he spoofed the pukka sahib set in India. In The Backward Bride, he showed a good Sicilian lad in the process of being poisoned by the toxic doctrines of an Oxford freethinker. In his latest novel, Author Menen grafts his wit on another culture, lets his English hero bloom like a quirky Renaissance prince...