Word: satiristic
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...envy of faltering age - "the world is good (but I am old)." And al though the novel is a bitter distillate of all the wonderful skill that made Kather ine Anne Porter's reputation in the '305, it avoids the smugness of the satisfied satirist - "the world is disgusting (but I am clever)." In fact there are no personal obtrusions, nothing of the gracious, 70-year-old Southern gentlewoman who in the 20 years since her last book has seemed to occupy herself chiefly with be ing a charming chatterer at literary gather ings. Her testament is objective...
...would be liverish, cold to the touch and awfully, awfully acute. So it might have happened, except that a time came when Aldous did not feel aldous any more; he felt thomas-henry. And old T. H. Huxley, the novelist's grandfather, was a solemn teacher, not a satirist. The result was that after the aldous Aldous had written Brave New World (a take-off on the sleek horrors of a mass-produced society), the new thomas-henrified Huxley deemed it his duty to map out a utopia for the betterment of the race...
...Columbus, Ohio, hometown of that late and great satirist, ground was broken for the James Thurber shopping center and apartment development. Lest his fans think the whole idea was laughable, his widow said solemnly, "It is especially good that his name is connected with something growing-that is what he would appreciate more than anything else...
...consider subversion the legitimate province of the satirist. If he's not in the business to overthrow one institution or another; if he's only in the business to poke irreverent but gentle fun, to amuse without biting, to comment without caring then, in my terms, he may be a lampoonist or a parodist or a light humorist, but he's not a satirist. A humorist will hold up a mirror, look at its reflection chuckle warmly and say "Well it's silly but its not such a bad reflection after all"; a satirist will have a darker view. That...
Feiffer knows that a satirist's effectiveness can be gauged in terms of the resentment he arouses. Sunday, in all modesty, he observed that since the Berlin crisis he has finally begun losing fans and newspapers. Need he then regret that, like Shaw, his satire is expressed with such charm and sympathy that the sting is often unfelt...