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Major W. R. Folk, Professor of Aerospace Studies, and I had the honor of sharing the CRIMSON'S editorial page the other day. Although I definitely appreciated being called a funny satirist, I'm afraid I came off in a very bad light by comparison. Thank you Major Folk for showing us why it was necessary to withdraw academic credit from ROTC! Kenneth L. Tigar '64 Tutor in German
Quennell's powers were triumphantly evident in his two-volume study of Byron, the only English poet who could rival Pope as a satirist. In Alexander Pope, Quennell has found another genius for a subject, though with him the difficulties are greater. The poet who wrote "the proper study of mankind is man" made no great study of himself, whereas Byron was his own biographer and the actor-manager of his own theater in every line he wrote. The clues to Pope's nature are to be found in the quality of his age, with its political-theological...
Buildings, police, slum kids, street crowds and the mayor-Bearden worked them all into the jigsaw combination of photomontage and pasteup collage that has become his personal style. It is a style he developed after years of study under such teachers as Satirist George Grosz and at Manhattan's Art Students League, and he uses it with remarkable versatility (TIME, Oct. 27, 1967). With it, he has portrayed the varied aspects of the world he has known-from Deep South sharecropper farms to the Harlem neighborhoods, where he spent his youth and later tried his hand at professional songwriting...
...This was so, he recalls, because he had been raised on "the cotton candy of the Eisenhower years." His attitude toward art was "What's in it for me, Jack?" The result was a stream of corporate and airline advertisements that continued even after Sorel became a freelancing satirist...
...Hubert Humphrey as they sat self-consciously before their TV screens during the G.O.P. and Democratic Convention balloting. Reasoner's partner, Mike Wallace, interviewed Attorney General Ramsey Clark for the cover story, "Cops." An overseas segment picked up some pointed remarks on U.S. politics from, among others, British Satirist Malcolm Muggeridge. And Columnist Art Buchwald contributed a miniessay on how journalists size up public opinion (they read each other's copy...