Word: satire
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...that requires coolly rational behavior at work, reserving feeling for home. Wholeness is often elusive. "Home is where the heart is," but more than one-third of U.S. mothers work at least part time, and some fathers hardly see the kids all week. According to Psychiatric Social Worker Virginia Satir, the average family dinner lasts ten to 20 minutes; some families spend as little as ten minutes a week together. Studies show that father absence has baneful effects (especially on boys), ranging from low self-esteem to hunger for immediate gratification and susceptibility to group influence. Hippies commonly flee from...
...author than read another of his books. They would give ten times the price of his complete works to know that he parts his left eye-brow in the middle. What reader does not find new zest in the works of James Branch Cabell, after learning that that urbane satir ist does most of his writing at night, is proud of his distinguished ancestry, and boasts a highly protective spouse? Or in those of Joseph Hergesheimer after being told for the first time that he began life as a student of painting, lavished a for tune on a few exuberant...