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...satirist in Wycherley never subdued the pornographer, and this bed-drawing-room comedy contains some of the most salaciously funny scenes and speeches known to dramatic literature. But if Wycherley uses, and perhaps abuses, sex to make his point, sex is not his point. His moral intent is to show that ethics are lowest where the prizes are greatest-and sex was the dearest trophy of Restoration society...
...Paris, fell under the spell of Flaubert and Zola, wrote a stack of realistic novels that appalled the provincial Portuguese and impressed some literate Parisians but missed fire in America. In 1962, however, a translation of O Crime do Padre Amaro presented him to U.S. readers as a satirist of force and finesse...
This catty little chat between two celebrated sissies of antiquity occupies the first seven lines of a new novel by Aubrey Menen, and suggests that the well-known Indo-Irish satirist (The Prevalence of Witches) has once again produced a witty, gritty demonstration of what grubby rogues and/or endearing fools most mortals be. What follows, unfortunately, is a limply whimsical succession of skits that describe how Alexander conquered the world but lost the war between men and women...
...Satirist Murray Schisgal pokes at the poses and spoofs the self-seriousness of a society and theater weaned on analysis and fed by Freud...
Died. Randall Jarrell, 51, U.S. poet and critic, professor of English since 1947 at North Carolina University in Greensboro; of injuries suffered when he apparently "lunged into the path" of a passing automobile; near Chapel Hill, N.C. An amusing satirist, he took deadly aim at academic pretension in his novel Pictures from an Institution and at the "goldplated age" of "spoon-fed culture" in A Sad Heart at the Supermarket. But his poetry (The Woman at the Washington Zoo) revealed an altogether different world, "commonplace and solitary," filled with terrified, lost souls finding refuge from loneliness only in Proustian reminiscence...