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Despite being best known for his humorous and satirical songs, Tom Lehrer, who died on 26 July at the age of 97, spent most ...
Yesterday, I heard that a figure I remembered from my childhood had died recently: Tom Lehrer, a musical satirist, performer, ...
Lehrer, who died Saturday, was a Harvard-educated math prodigy whose satirical music was everything my nerdy teenage self ...
Tom Lehrer, satirist and mathematician, died at 97. A look at his musical legacy, wit, and cultural impact that still ...
Yet, in truth, satire—at least satire of great quality—lives just as long as any other kind of art. It keeps its objects ...
The musical humorist used his Army experience as the basis for several of his songs, and in turn worked in references to his ...
Obituary The field of satirists and hit singer-songwriters who were also professional mathematicians and lecturers is a very ...
Brief though his career as an entertainer was, Tom Lehrer inscribed his signature on a brainy, no-holds-barred brand of ...
The mathematician, songwriter and satirist Tom Lehrer has died. In his later years, he put his musical work in the public ...
Tom Lehrer, the American satirical songwriter and mathematician whose darkly comic songs skewered politics, culture, and ...
Almost every American schoolkid has heard the song: "There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium." Set to a tune from The ...
Tom Lehrer, the American satirical songwriter and performer whose creative work was essentially completed by 1965 yet retains an uncanny freshness and timeliness, has died aged 97. The man who once ...