ABSTRACT
Art Buchwald served in the US Marine Corps from 1942 to 1945, during which time he was with the Fourth Marine Air Wing in the Pacific. Art Buchwald writes topical, social and political satire. He writes about such economic indicators as Alka-Seltzer and Rolaid sales. Buchwald is a master of parody. His particular type of parody is based on developing an incongruity between the subject and the grammatical framework of the piece. Buchwald is satirizing the conflict between labor and management in this piece, and the labor negotiations that result from the conflict. Buchwald is also a master of political satire. Consider a piece in which Buchwald writes about the 12,654th plenary session of the 17-nation disarmament conference in Geneva, in the year 1994. Buchwald is afraid that the Communist Party in the United States is becoming so infiltrated by US government agents that some day the entire Communist Party will be made up of FBI informants.
