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...Good satirists get so hot under the choler that they are always in danger of breaking out in a sentimental sweat-which is why many of them cling tightly to cold ferocity and suppress the feeblest spasms of affection. Satirist Evelyn Waugh has been no exception, but he is one of the few of his kind who has found the conflict between satirical art and goodness of heart a nagging, challenging problem. His ideal is the simple, honest "Christian gentleman"; Waugh cherishes things romantic, patriotic and traditional. Moreover, he is a religious man, whose irrepressible satirical arrogance is at variance...
Wallach told the audience that humor must serve a purpose other than to make people laugh. This, he said, can be accomplished through parody and satire, the type of humor which aids people to redefine reality. Aristophanes, Wallach said, was a successful satirist, as were Shaw and Cervantes...
Lillie's leading characteristic-her cool, impeccably groomed air-is actually a very misleading one. For it suggests a drawing-room satirist of manners; then, with a sudden vocal or facial or bodily twist, she achieves something thoroughly low or superbly insane. This elegance punctuated with epilepsy can create effects as uproarious as they are unique...
Near Rapallo, where he has lived for the past 40 years, Britain's famed Satirist Sir Max Beerbohm ("the inimitable Max") quietly passed his 80th birthday. Among his gifts: a privately printed scarlet-bound book containing tributes from such younger men of letters as Robert Graves, T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene...
Novelist John P. Marquand was the guest of honor at a luncheon last week in his old home town of Newburyport, Mass., attended by 200 of New England's top businessmen. But, as the nation's leading satirist later confessed, he was not quite sure why he had been honored. Novelist Marquand might have wondered still more if he had turned his satiric eye on the group which honored him, and which he had joined only shortly before. Its name: the Newcomen Society of England in North America...