Word: satirists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the election, political cartoonists ridiculed the Kennedys' massed march on Washington. Cracked Satirist Del Close of Chicago's Second City: "If Teddy wins. Laos won't be the only country with three princes." Columnists were critical. "Make no mistake about it," wrote Scripps-How-ard's Richard Starnes, "Teddy Kennedy has mortgaged his brother's Administration." Asked Inez Robb: "Don't you think that Teddy is one Kennedy too many?" On primary day, Editor Jonathan Daniels of the strongly pro-Kennedy Raleigh News and Observer wrote: "Whatever happens in Massachusetts today, the implications...
...cinema's rare great works of art. he revealed a rugged realism, an exquisite humanity, a sense for what is sublime in being human. Now. in a movie that is both a wow of a show and a masterpiece of misanthropy, Kurosawa emerges as a bone-cracking satirist who with red-toothed glee chews out his century as no dramatist has done since Bertolt Brecht...
...Erih Kos. A Yugoslavian social satirist shows how everyone mindlessly sings the praise of a great, useless whale when it is lugged into Belgrade...
...covered Washington with appropriate solemnity. In time, the solemn rounds began to pall; Baker was about to join another paper when the Times suddenly gave him a chance to stray. By last week, calling himself "Observer," Baker was solidly ensconced as the Times's editorial-page satirist...
Died. George Macaulay Trevelyan, 86, Britain's most eminent historian, great-nephew of Lord Macaulay, famed 19th century political satirist, a Cambridge professor who published his first work at 23, was best known for his monumental English Social History, which for some 20 years has been a standard text on both sides of the Atlantic; in Cambridge. An outspoken, impatient man with deep-set eyes and beetling brows, Trevelyan was a zealous defender of the green splendor of England's countryside, warning his fellow Britons to preserve its beauties, or "the future of our race will be brutish...