Word: pithiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satirical elbow room to comment on them. Author Wilson has chided gloomy fellow novelists who write "as if we were back in the Depression years," and his point is well taken. He himself is open to the opposite charge of a boom mentality about the human condition. The pithiest critique of this point of view came from F. Scott Fitzgerald during another boom: "The victor belongs to the spoils...
...merry way between a spoofing irreverence and a spanking incongruity. At times, it darts down the side streets of satire; often it winds up in the zany alleys of fantasy. At its pithy best, the comic cartoon can do all these things at once. Three cartoon books by the pithiest practitioners of this minor art have appeared just in time to tickle the fun-loving Christmas trade...