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Jimmy is also a pinwheel satirist. He constantly kids the formalities of human discourse ('"Dat's da conditions dat prevail!'"). He is a relentless lampooner of high society who, in his nightclubs, has often suddenly leered over an especially low neckline with a solicitous '"Pardon me, madame, dew you feel a draft?'" Jimmy's own show business takes a constant beating from him. Perhaps the subtlest of all his comic achievements is his parody of the way in which many people from his own proletarian background maltreat the culture they so earnestly desire...
Cripps and the Devil. Satirist Joad's Young Soldier is "a fine specimen of young English manhood, with a more enquiring turn of mind than is sometimes found among those who have emerged from the valley of the shadow of middle-class education." When his adventures begin, he has just been listening, in his mess, to a broadcast by Sir Stafford Cripps on What We Are Fighting For. Sir Stafford said we are fighting to make a better and happier world. The Young Soldier thinks that is very nice, wonders how it is to be brought about. He decides...
...Satirist John Phillips Marquand, who told off the foibles and failings of New England in The Late George Apley, Wickford Point and H. M. Pulham, Esquire, herewith tells off Manhattan and its intellectual suburbs, rural Connecticut and Hollywood, in 595 pages. Almost all of them are interesting, a few quite funny, and one or two as profound as Marquand is ever likely to write. The Book-of-the Month Club, which receives three or four puffs in the course of the novel, made So Little Time its September selection...
...spontaneous and unprecedented song. But as a devoted artificer of words and as a distiller of experience, he has always been a poet, and a particularly fine one. Unlike many greater and lesser poets, moreover, he has constantly grown and changed. In his youth he was most notably a satirist; then a mosaic artist of exquisite sensibility, a man who used the perfected expression of past artists as frankly as he used his own, to arrange, fragment by fragment, edge by edge, an image of the desolation of his time (The Waste Land...
...Preface to Morons by Walter B. Pipkin, Pfui D., Tristram Coffin, a finespun obituary by Edwinson Arlington Cemetry, Black Majesty by Dark van Moron, The Life of Joseph Wood Peacock by his uncle Doc van Doren, and Training the Giant Pander by quaint old Trader van Horen." Concludes Satirist Wilson: "And there was also Granville van Arven and his League of American Vipers, but that is another snory...