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"Romains's satire, which is still read by French schoolchildren, is the story of an ambitious doctor who comes to the sleepy town of Saint-Maurice. Dr. Knock buys the practice of the town's longtime physician, who was known for telling patients that time would heal their afflictions. Dr. Knock decides he is not satisfied with the meager financial rewards that come from offering such medical advice. He vows to bring medical progress to Saint-Maurice, while producing riches for himself. Quickly, Dr." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"If there is a note of satire in mentioning therapies that relate to my birth sign, the satire is far from triumphant. John Diamond thinks of his situation in terms of principles: surgery and radiotherapy were in accord with "principles I didn't quite understand," alternative medicine was seen in terms of "obvious principle." To this extent, he was a rationalising patient. The Times also wrote that John Diamond "hated the temptation to talk of higher powers," and a natural corollary is to reach for such order as may be found through the identification of principles." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.)

"In his odd but brilliant 1983 satire Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, Percy combines an analysis of the ills of our age with some tentative suggestions about what do about them. Lost in the Cosmos is a departure for Percy in that instead of a novel, it is a sort of memorandum to his fellow wayfarers in American society. This is pure and unvarnished Percy, relieved of the need to tell a story. For the reader, this is liberating, because narrative was not his primary gift. Throughout the book, Percy plays with the concept of "reentry." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"If there is a note of satire in mentioning therapies that relate to my birth sign, the satire is far from triumphant. John Diamond thinks of his situation in terms of principles: surgery and radiotherapy were in accord with "principles I didn't quite understand," alternative medicine was seen in terms of "obvious principle." To this extent, he was a rationalising patient. The Times also wrote that John Diamond "hated the temptation to talk of higher powers," and a natural corollary is to reach for such order as may be found through the identification of principles." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.)

"Allen's film was healthy satire, but the revisionists would have us take it as a documentary. They promote as established fact the dangerous misconception that environmental concerns are purely modern creatures born of our narcissistic age. Perhaps this distorted view merely reflects a general shortsightedness we all share to one extent or another. William Faulkner observed that the old do not perceive the past to stretch back linearly." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"Today, with such eerily similar cases already filed or considered against fast-food giants and companies, that satire has lost its sting, and the piece now seems prophetic. But in the year 2000, many readers, we suspect, were amused by The Onion's fictitious news story about the Hershey Foods Corporation being ordered to pay a monstrous $135 billion in restitution fees to 900,000 obese Americans in five states for "knowingly and willfully marketing rich, fatty candy bars containing chocolate and other ingredients of negligible nutritional value." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"The trouble is, while adults appreciate ironic humour, children under the age of about eight take such statements literally, and even for many older pre-teens satire remains a mystery. We have no idea how many Bart Simpson act-a-likes have actually swallowed his philosophy whole. Possibly quite a few, because in the same survey 79 per cent of parents said their child was often badly behaved and 68 per cent reckoned the present generation was the worst behaved in history." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"We can enjoy the reruns of the Seinfeld television satire, but it is high time we stop revisiting the same repeated episodes of failed public protection. FOUR Under a Green Sea The Rising Tide of Chlorine a silent epidemic A bottle of household bleach sitting peacefully on the laundry room shelf is not a ticking time bomb. It is merely a small tactical weapon in our never-ending war against dirt, germs, and stains. Bleach is not benign, however, because the chlorine that is trapped inside it, if released, can be a potent toxin." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"For example, a sarcastic remark directed at a person who consistently arrives fifteen minutes late for appointments might be, "Oh, you've arrived exactly on time!" satire A work of literature that mocks social conventions, another work of art, or anything its author thinks ridiculous. Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, is a satire directed at eighteenth-century British society. science fiction Works of fiction that use scientific discoveries or advanced technology — either actual or imaginary — as part of their plot. Jules Verne and H. G. Wells were early writers of science fiction." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"Such blatantly consumer-unfriendly legislation was ripe for satire, and figure 7 presents one such pointed commentary, in this case, from political cartoonist Garry Trudeau. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader observed that the Dole bill represented nothing less than a "big business takeover of the U.S. government in its health and safety responsibilities." Nevertheless, after contentious debate, the Senate passed various amendments to the Dole bill as part of the Republicans' Contract with America." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"For example, a sarcastic remark directed at a person who consistently arrives fifteen minutes late for appointments might be, "Oh, you've arrived exactly on time!" satire A work of literature that mocks social conventions, another work of art, or anything its author thinks ridiculous. Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, is a satire directed at eighteenth-century British society. science fiction Works of fiction that use scientific discoveries or advanced technology ?either actual or imaginary ?as part of their plot. Jules Verne and H. G. Wells were early writers of science fiction." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"Little is known about his life, but Athens became his home and its politics, society, and prominent figures were the subjects of his satire. Aristophanes parodied everything from Socrates and the sophists in The Clouds (423 B.C.) to the Peloponnesian War in Lysistrata (411 B.C.), in which the women of Athens boycott their husbands until a peace is reached. The other nine of his 11 surviving plays, out of possibly 50 attributed to him, are The Acharnians (425 B.C.), The Knights (424 B.C.), The Wasps (422 B.C.), The Peace (421 B.C.), The Birds (414 B.C." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Gulliver's Travels (1726), an account of a journey to four fanciful lands, is regarded as the greatest (and fiercest) English satire. Tacitus (Cornelius Tacitus), b. A.D. 56; d. ca. 120. Roman historian. Little is known about the life of Tacitus, author of the Annals, which cover the lives of emperors Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero. He was a friend of Pliny the Younger and consul for a time. Other works include Agricola, a biography of his father-in-law; and De Origine et Situ Germanorum (also called Germania), which discusses German tribal customs. Taft, William Howard, b." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "His greatest and most famous novel, Vanity Fair (1848), is a masterly satire of the English upper class, featuring Becky Sharp, a clever, crooked, successful schemer who is one of the major figures in English fiction. It was followed by the partly biographical Pendennis (1850) and the historical novels Henry Esmond (1852) and The Virginians (1857?9). Thackeray worked feverishly to support his family after his wife went insane around 1840, and he lectured widely in Britain and America. Thatcher, Margaret, b. Grantham, England, 1925. British prime minister." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Byron's greatest poem, Don Juan, a comic, epic satire written 1819-24, was his last. He died in Greece while training troops for that country's war of independence. Caesar, Julius b. Rome, ca. 102 B.C.; d. 44 B.C. Roman general and statesman. A popular orator and an accomplished military commander, Julius Caesar was considered by some a political reformer and proponent of the people, and by others a dictator seeking to destroy the Roman republic and usurp absolute power. Before leaving to fight in the Gallic wars (58-50 B.C." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"For example: first person singular: I walk, second person singular: you walk, third person singular: he/she/it walks, first person plural: we walk, second person plural: you walk, third person plural: they walk. satire A work of literature that mocks social conventions, another work of art, or anything its author thinks ridiculous. Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, is a satire directed at eighteenth-century British society. science fiction Works of fiction that use scientific discoveries or advanced technology — either actual or imaginary — as part of their plot. Jules Verne and H. G." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.)

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