Word: swiftian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mondo Cane. Some episodes in this stomach-churning travelogue are almost Swiftian in their comment on human frailty. Others are simply funny. But the best/worst parts provide some of the bloodiest minutes to hit the screen in a long time...
...Mark Caine. In the clever guise of a self-help manual, this British book aims a good Swiftian kick at the cultists of success...
Freudian man, Marxian man, organization man, lifeman, gamesman and grey-flannel-suit man-what were they compared to the S-Man? Piglets to a python. In the diabolically clever guise of a self-help manual, The S-Man aims a good Swiftian kick at the cult and cultists of success. A British export, the book lacks the clubby good humor of Parkinson and Potter, substitutes instead the wittily barbed aphorisms of the success man's ascent ("New friends are best friends"). Cocktail party Platos will find a host of new S-Man concepts, including the Inhibition Barrier...
...discover that Gulliver (Kerwin Mathews) has a scantily clad girl friend (June Thorburn). And they may feel even worse when the hero tells her, in ponderous Jungian prose, that "the giants are inside us" and that mankind could be rescued from these vast unruly forces only by an un-Swiftian sentiment called "love...
...CHILD BUYER, by John Hersey. Not consistently on target but full of troubling truth, this satire snaps and slashes at the antihumanist trend that sees men as tools rather than souls. The Swiftian plot concerns parents, educators and politicians who acquiesce in the actual sale of a boy genius to industry...