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Tom Lehrer, who died July 26, was a satirist ahead of his time

Last week, "South Park" showed President Trump in bed with Satan — his genitalia showing — and barely rated a shrug. Current events had simply gotten too grotesque, even for him. The humorist and ...
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Tom Lehrer, master satirist of Cold War era, dies at 97

Tom Lehrer, a social and political satirist who amassed a devoted following in the 1950s and 1960s for routines featuring blithely subversive musical numbers such as “So Long Mom (A Song for World War ...
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Musical satirist Tom Lehrer has died at 97

Perhaps the world's most influential part-time musical satirist has died. Tom Lehrer was 97. He had a career that spanned decades. He was known for his whimsical lyrics. Former NPR producer Art ...
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Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at ...
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Tom Lehrer, influential musical satirist, dies at 97

Tom Lehrer, a popular musical satirist who rose to fame in the 1950s and '60s before returning to a career teaching math, has died at age 97. Lehrer died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Mass., ...
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Tom Lehrer Satirized the National Security State From the Inside

Almost every American schoolkid has heard the song: "There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium." Set to a tune from The Pirates of Penzance, Tom Lehrer's cheery musical trip through the periodic ...