Word: satirists
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...Tacitus, Historian and Satirist," Professor Rand, Sever...
...Tacftus, Historian and Satirist," Professor Rand, Sever...
...riddle all the bohemians and neo-bohemians on earth. With a scalpel of wit in one hand, a cleaver of words in the other, the author lays open their pimplish coteries, shows them apish creatures loosely sexed. Wherever Art is, there are these Apes gathered. The fact that Satirist Lewis' account of their doings slipped the censor can only be explained by his book's disarming brilliance and enormous length. The chief gist of the Apes' preoccupations is revealed in the opening scene, where, outside Lady Fredigonde Follett's London mansion, "the policeman could be observed...
...that this combination is exactly the one which would appeal to certain prejudices rooted in the academic mind. But the fact remains that he is a man of extraordinary talents and that he is, despite his present conservatism, not quite the type which usually receives official recognition. Once a satirist and a rebel, he has become a defender of a highly intellectual kind of authoritarianism in politics and religion as well as in literature, but he has achieved a solid fame without ever saying or writing anything which seems likely to be popular. He is the most conspicuous survivor among...
...Manhattan art galleries held memorial exhibitions last week for a man who died in Paris five months ago in his 80th year: Jean-Louis Forain, biting satirist, master of etching and lithography, one of the greatest ecclesiastical artists since Rembrandt, one of the last giants of the 19th Century (TIME, July...