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...grew fat on the war (Young Guard sold 3,000,000 copies), but when it was all over, Stalin cut them down to size in a new purge. Described as "filthy" and "obscene" in journals controlled by Author Fadeyev's union were two survivors of the revolutionary epoch: Satirist Mikhail (The Adventures of an Ape) Zoshchenko and Poetess Anna (The White Flock) Akhmatova. Even Fadeyev, criticized in Pravda, had to eat a little crow. Told to rewrite Young Guard, he said: "I quite agree...
...Like any satirist, Author Schneider also considers himself a moralist. Yet his moral is perhaps the worst thing about the book. The old machine boss grew out of the necessities of ward politics and immigrant life, just as the new TV-conscious politician is shaped by the realities of mass education and mass sophistication. Both types can be corrupt, but the most corrupt thing in politics remains the destructive, naively cynical idea that all politicians are crooks-or admen...
...Experts in this game can tell that Taub in The Oasis is really the editor of a certain highbrow magazine; another highbrow editor (his journal is now defunct) won his McCarthy Purple Heart as Macdougal Macdermott in the same book, but both remain good and gallant friends of their satirist...
Officers and Gentlemen, by Evelyn Waugh. The deft and relentless British satirist writes his second fine war novel around the exploits and disillusionments of Guy Crouchback, commando officer and "Christian gentleman" (TIME, July...
...ruling-class commandomen with the authority of one who took part in raids on Bardia in Libya and fought in Yugoslavia. His eye for the ridiculous still flashes quick as a pistol. He can still write crushingly of spivvish parvenus and loony Hebridean lairds. But the formerly ferocious satirist continues to broaden and deepen the fascinating experiment, begun in Men at Arms, of doling out uncertain portions of esteem and even affection to such characters as share his 18th century Tory's devotion to God, King and Country. As one result, a somewhat unforgiving melancholy runs through this often...