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...emergency took hold, the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square were dimmed in order to conserve electricity. TIME asked British Satirist and Author Auberon Waugh (son of Novelist Evelyn Waugh) to comment on the mood of the nation in the midst of its latest eco nomic crises. His acerbic reflections, which represent a sig nificant minority opinion in Britain...
Steinberg's appeal is not so much that of the social or political satirist, although there are strong elements of both kinds of satire in his work, but of his uncanny ability to literalize our everyday notions into striking images...
...Actually," she continues, stopping only to puff an ever-present Kent cigarette, "the play is a satire. Anyone who understands a satirist's mind knows that he is someone who is deeply disappointed and takes his revenge in poking fun at the objects of his disillusionment." Mrs. Luce's disillusionment was with her pre-Women life in the café society of the 1920s and 1930s where rich women with nothing better to do turned on themselves. "It was a life I did not like," she says firmly, underlining every word. "The expectation of my youth was that...
...empire was a satirist's paradise, as Musil demonstrated in his mammoth novel A Man Without Qualities, it was also the most exciting intellectual center in Europe. There were Mach and Boltzman in physics, Bruckner, Mahler and Schoenberg in music, Adler and Freud in psychology. There were also dozens of writers and journalists, including the brilliant, mordant social critic Karl Kraus, whose anti-paper Die Fackel (The Torch) was dedicated to making its readers "morally aware of the essential distinction between the chamber...
...satirist of a society in which ideas, emotions and talent are consumed and disposed of as readily as other products, Barthelme himself is in danger of going into the public maw. His distinctive style and fractured vision are now so refined and of such a predictable consistency that they begin to remind one of-well, Chinese baby food