Word: satirists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the fact that a character named Major Major Major Major is almost unnoticed in the confusion. The book's chief fault is that the author does not know how to end it. After running well for almost 500 pages, it merely runs down. Next project for the satirist: another novel, called Something Happened, due next year...
...only come over here with the show," he said, "to make enough money to subsidize a year's residency in some American hospital. After a year in New York--if we last that long--I'll give it up. I am more of a doctor, you know, than a satirist...
...doctor, we questioned; and what were his reasons for wanting to work in this country? His field (explained Doctor Miller) is neuro-psychiatry, the study of the effects of physical drugs on psychologically disturbed people; and his reasons for wanting to study in the United States (pointed out Satirist Miller) are simple: "the American public has a curious belief--it's a Puritan hangover--that disease is culpable, so you pay exorbitant sums to be cured. And your doctors make a lot of money...
...grand dragon of the YADs, by acclamation and by forfeit (he denies, of course, having anything in common with his beatnik vassals, but this is merely good form; no one ever admits to being a member of a literary movement started by someone else). Although Burroughs fancies himself a satirist and occasionally resembles one when the diary's heroin fog clears a little, the value of his book is mostly confessional, not literary...
...that Mississippian master of grim comedy, William Faulkner, who until his death last July was Oxford's most famous resident. After turning Meredith away at Jackson, Barnett got stalled in the elevator for ten minutes while the crowd out side the building yelled "We want Ross!" A gifted satirist could hardly have invented the dialogue between Barnett and Doar. And there was something sadly comic about James Meredith's desire to enroll at the University of Mississippi...