Word: satirists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small but noisy neo-Nazi movement provoked a Trafalgar Square riot with anti-Semitic speeches two weeks ago, a pro-Labor country squire, Lord Walston, wrote the London Observer an angry letter calling for extensive laws to curb excesses in public speech. Replying a week later, mischievous Satirist Evelyn Waugh, 59, penned his own modest proposal to the lord. Wrote Waugh: "May I commend to him a group whose interests, I am sure, lie near his heart: his own peers? . . . They have, like the Jews, been the objects of frequent, atrocious attack. They are now held up continuously to hatred...
Letting Go, by Philip Roth. The talented satirist of Goodbye, Columbus has produced a long novel on the troubles of the university young; page by page, it is a delight of flawless dialogue and sour wit, but taken in sum it is another solemn novel about a young man lured by the sirens of Meaninglessness...
This book sells for $3.75 and contains 382 aphorisms. Hence the pithy thoughts of Stanislaw J. Lee, Polish poet and satirist, are worth about 1? apiece. A penny for your thoughts...
This is Walt Kelly's weakness as a satirist; he is always shading off into whimsy and gentleness. With humorous exceptions like Mole and Deacon, or Wiley Catt and Sarcophagus MaCabre, the swamp creatures want only to live quietly and be kind, to play, and to indulge in their uniaersal passion for telling each other the oldest hoariest American chestnuts. (Even the Deacon succumbs to the weakness: Mole sombrely admonishes him, "Remember forewarned is forearmed," and Deacon sniggers "I suppose an Octopus is twice as well off?" As they walk away, Mole snorts with disgust and Deacon is tee-heeing...
Okeefenokee is an idyl, rather than a satirist's world. There is a lovely radiant idleness about all those scenes which show the characters lazily fishing, or sleeping on a raft--"The S.S. Kenneth G." What shapes the boundaries of the idyl is a distrust of all the official frauds and postures that keep the real world together, all the speeches and slogans and generals and college songs and national anthems and figures like the Minute Man and Senators. The termite walking along with Pogo states Okefenokee's view of matters pithily--"It'll be a long time afore they...