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...sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." See SHOW BUSINESS, The Sabbatical Satirist...
...simply is not avantgarde. People are brought up cherishing concepts of the 19th century, and the stimulating effect of the Jewish element is missing." Attracted by better pay and opportunity, thousands of young Austrian intellectuals have deserted the Danube for West Germany and Switzerland. Sniffs the brilliant young actor-satirist Helmut Qualtinger, who stayed behind: "Austria is the Disneyland of Europe. Nothing but Lippizaners, Strauss, Schlag, schmalz and zithers. And who really likes Sachertorte...
JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. The horror and tragedy of the God-haunted cleric who was English literature's most powerful ironist, consummately examined by a noted contemporary British satirist...
...know whether people are going to come to their senses or whether they have decided that this is the new Las Vegas-how to make $100,000 the quick way," says Stan Freberg, the nutty satirist who was one of the first performers to get into the commercial field in a major way. "But I believe that someone, somewhere, has enough money to make Elizabeth Taylor pick up a can of Maxwell House...
Swift's sickness and his satire are examined simultaneously in this slender but consummate volume by Britain's Nigel Dennis. Himself a satirist (Cards of Identity) of no mean attainment, Author Dennis has an acute affinity for his subject. More clearly than any of Swift's latter-day biographers, he looks into the works as into a window on the man, and arranges the facts of his life to explain the state of his soul...