Word: satiristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...18th Century, Guinness, grown to be the biggest brewery in Ireland, was rocked by the only crisis that has ever really shaken the firm. In Catholic Ireland, the Protestant Guinnesses were accused of signing an anti-Catholic petition, and Guinness was boycotted as "Protestant Porter." Explained a contemporary satirist: "A learned doctor has analyzed the anti-popery porter [and found it produces] a disposition to bowels particularly lax, an inclination to pravity and to singing praises of the Lord through the nose." The trouble was, he said, that Guinness had its porter makers "mash up stereotype Protestant Bibles and Methodist...
...political editorial . . . a clever attempt to use the movies to sway public opinion ... [it is] making history in the field of farm politics." Does it mean, he went on to ask, that the movie industry "is going to bat to knock the Government out of agriculture?" "The cartoon," said Satirist Sutherland, "was not aimed specifically at the . . . Brannan Plan, but if the shoe fits, they can wear...
...angry at social injustice, but the idea of reform bored him just as much. The source of his anger seemed to spring from his childhood in Sauk Centre, in which, to his intense disappointment, he could see no Lancelots and no shining castles. Usually mislabeled a realist or a satirist, he was really a disappointed romantic...
...ranks almost with The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, the great novels which Stendhal wrote before & after it; and it marks the mid-point in his development from a powerful psychologist who couldn't help laughing at the people he created, to a deadly satirist who couldn't stop creating the people he laughed...
...other is the irresponsible satirist who makes indiscriminate fun of actions and attitudes, and shows no solid body of ideas behind his humor. Evelyn Waugh is an unhappy example of this second species...