Satire is what closes Saturday night.
George S. Kaufman
Some months ago, during one of his periodic fund-raising drives for Monocle, a quarterly magazine of political satire, Editor Victor Navasky, 31, put the arm on Playwright George (The Seven Year Itch) Axelrod in Hollywood. Axelrod allowed that he could comfortably spare $12,000 for the cause, but he refused to part with anything but advice. "Satirists should starve," said he. In seven years of publishing Monocle, Editor Navasky has learned that starving is just about all contemporary satirists can do.
Only Navasky's conviction that...
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