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Cummings is also bold enough to refer to Sally Rand's fan dance at the World's Fair in Chicago, but Cummings is somewhat less satirical than of yore, though, to be sure, he was never in the great tradition, since as a satirist he is unique in that he attacks people so powerful as to be indifferent (e.g., Comrade Stalin) or too weak to defend themselves (e.g., be-spectacled Radcliffe girls, professors leading castrated pups down Brattle and Kirkland Streets, tired business men, etc.) As a lyricist, on the other hand, he is the same as ever...
...last week exhibiting the paintings of a lady named Minna Citron, Manhattan critics bustled round to have a look. They found a quiet, sharp-featured, well-dressed Brooklyn housewife of 38 with two sons and an interest in cooking and psychoanalysis who is artistically something far rarer: a feminine satirist, troubled not by man's inhumanity to woman but by the follies...
...many years a pupil of Kenneth Hayes Miller, who paints similar subjects, Artist Citron is apparently essaying the well-known Miller technique, with the effect that her paintings paraphrase the work of Satirist Reginald Marsh. Her colors are the same, so is her drawing, so are her thin oils on gesso covered wooden panels...
...certain 'saeva indignatio'--the indignation of the true social satirist--is in this definition: "One of the few lines left can be drawn between women who can be bought by the advertisers or not." "The Victorian Peeresses would have rather sold themselves in private," Mr. Leslie informs us, "than given their faces away with a box of cream." O tempera! O mores...
...Satirist Lardner had his tongue in his cheek, he may also have been aware of the finding of psychologists that the words commonly thought to be ugly-sounding are so considered, consciously or unconsciously, because of unpleasant associations and not because of phonetical harshness. Scholars recognize a few words as truly onomatopoeic; e.g., tinkle, plash, squawk. But in the vast majority of cases the reaction of a hearer is determined by meaning, not by combinations of vowels and consonants...