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Austen exaggerates nothing; given her target she scarcely had to. But she brings to this item of juvenilia the mark of an accomplished satirist: she sets foolishness off against an implied moral world. Near the end of her narrative, Laura recalls meeting a plain girl named Bridget: "She could not be supposed to possess either exalted Ideas, Delicate Feelings or refined Sensibilities - She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil & obliging Young Woman ..." To her later glory, Jane Austen was to make a lasting place in English fiction for such plain creatures...
Other white South Africans kept their tongues firmly in cheek. Satirist Alexander de Kok of the Sunday Express wrote of a nationalist friend who had called the finding "an Afrikaner master plan." Said Kok: "What better way to pass power peacefully into black hands than to prove scientifically that those who hold it now are as black as the rest." Kok also wondered why Afrikaner historians had taken so many years to make the discovery, unless "as many Afrikaners say, people of mixed blood are slow thinkers." When a black Johannesburg gardener asked a white what he thought about...
...loses again, every realist artist and portraitist in America, as well as every satirist, had better beware...
...Gymnase. "Hey," Coluche begins in his usual patois, "we've negotiated a fantastic deal with the Soviets: we give them all our wheat, and they let us keep our coal." The son of an Italian immigrant house painter, Coluche, 36, has now become something more than a nightclub satirist puncturing the pretensions of politicians and diplomats in the coarse argot of la France profonde-the real France of factory workers, small farmers and shopkeepers. He has announced himself as a candidate in next year's presidential election, and according to one poll, 10% to 12% of Coluche...
...house door (a predecessor, no doubt, of the great American custom of home delivery), and pigs enjoy such citizenship that they wander at will, rooting in the street garbage and nuzzling pedestrians with their moist snouts. Americans seldom declined to provide a bounteous native rubery for the satirist to exercise his superciliousness upon: according to Henry Adams, Ulysses S. Grant once told a young woman in all seriousness that Venice would be a lovely city if only it could be drained...