Word: satiristic
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...satirist will probably discuss his striking respectability in a speech this Sunday, accompanying the Poets Theatre production of his one act play, Crawling Arnold, and their dramatization of his sketches. The apparent ease with which these cartoon strips can be translated into dramatic skits does not offend Feiffer the artist. Although his subtle, deceptively fine drawings will not come into play, his terse dialogue can well stand alone. And neither writer nor artist begrudge the other any success...
...Bernard Mergendeiler, his own soft-spoken hero, has been over-indulged. A tall, thin New Yorker, Jules Feiffer is both handsome and owlish; in his self-sketches he gives himself credit for more hair than he has. In Bernard, he allows himself more naivete; he is, after all, a satirist. His ear is sensitive to cliches and synopsized attitudes, which he manages to avoid successfully...
...officer staring lecherously at the bosom of the girl cutting his toenails while another officer preens before a mirror, is a hilarious lampoon of Gallic lust and vanity. In The Return, Portsmouth Point and The Great Hall (for which Rowlandson farmed out the background, did only the figures), the satirist turned on his native land to poke fun at the rowdiness of the toughs and the smugness of the toffs. But beyond the brawling and posturing lie England's manicured countryside, its proud fleet and its stately halls-eloquent testimony, lovingly brushed, that the world of Thomas Rowlandson...
Writing with a wry, sure sense of absurdity, the author proves again that he is a superb literary entertainer. As a social satirist, Sansom is no Samson but his deft dialogue demonstrates that he can do considerable damage to the Philistines with the jawbone...
...promises seemed to be perjured, giving at least plausibility to the Communist thesis that capitalism was in a state of "ever deepening" crisis. Some preferred to think it was a corpse already. One group called themselves "The Laughing Morticians." They included Alexander King, since become a TV chatterbox, satirist George Grosz, an exile from Nazi Germany, and Sociologist Gilbert Seldes, all of them eager to say the last rites over capitalism. The U.S.S.R., a distant and unverifiable protoutopia, brandished a blank check drawn on the future...