Word: satirists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swift's sickness and his satire are examined simultaneously in this slender but consummate volume by Britain's Nigel Dennis. Himself a satirist (Cards of Identity) of no mean attainment, Author Dennis has an acute affinity for his subject. More clearly than any of Swift's latter-day biographers, he looks into the works as into a window on the man, and arranges the facts of his life to explain the state of his soul...
...LITTLE LEARNING, by Evelyn Waugh. The first part of the British satirist's autobiography is a warm, impressionistic recollection of childhood, a spirited account of high living at Oxford and a miserable tour as a master in a bleak boys' school in Wales-in fact, almost all the ingredients of Waugh's brilliant first novel, Decline and Fall...
...LITTLE LEARNING, by Evelyn Waugh. In the first volume of his autobiography, the great English satirist looks back on his sunny, comfortable childhood. If he does not quite pin down how he gained his mastery of prose and satire, he gives a lively account of his Oxford years and the remarkable companions who were to turn up in his novels...
...LITTLE LEARNING, by Evelyn Waugh. In the first volume of his autobiography, the great English satirist looks back on his sunny, comfortable childhood. If he does not quite pin down how he gained his mastery of prose and satire, he gives a lively account of the whims and excesses of his Oxford years and the remarkable companions who were to turn up in his novels...
Last week a three-judge Manhattan criminal court applied that test to Comedian Lenny Bruce, a nightclub social satirist who deliberately dips his wit in scatology. A two-judge majority found Bruce guilty of using words "patently offensive to the average person." The judges broadened their definition by remarking that Bruce's language "clearly debased sex and insulted it." This very un-Victorian and quite contemporary observation points up the fact that much sexual humor in today's novels and plays is based on homosexuality, perversion and nonconsummation. In his nightclub act, Bruce used unscrubbed words that...