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Thread #22316   Message #1003740
Posted By: Joe_F
17-Aug-03 - 06:43 PM
Thread Name: Tom Lehrer and his satire. The Best!
Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer and his satire. The Best!
ClintonHammond:

You are surely not alone. The following testimonials are quoted on the jacket of _An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer_:

"More desperate than amusing" -- _New York Herald Tribune_
"He seldom has any point to make except obvious ones" -- _Christian Science Monitor_
"Mr. Lehrer's muse [is] not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste" -- _New York Times_
"Vulgarity" -- _Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph_
"Obvious, jejune, and remarkably unsophisticated" -- _London Evening Standard_
"Plays the piano acceptably" -- _Oakland Tribune_

Alas, Mr Lehrer has already outlasted the _Tribune_ by some decades.