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Tom Lehrer, Dies and Musical

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Tom Lehrer, Harvard’s Satiric, Melodic Mathematician, Dies at 97

Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-educated mathematician whose brief side gig as one of America’s favorite satirical composers captured in tune some of the anxieties and absurdities of the 1950s and 1960s, has died,

The New York Times · 1d

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often maddeningly cheerful.

Los Angeles Times on MSN · 1d

Tom Lehrer, musical satirist, dies at 97

The influential comic stylist and mathematician rose to fame lampooning mainstream American mores in the 1950s and 1960s, then retreated into academic life.

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Tom Lehrer, wickedly funny musical satirist whose subversive ditties caused outrage and delight

Tom Lehrer, who has died aged 97, wrote and performed such subversive ditties as Poisoning Pigeons in the Park and The ...

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Tom Lehrer was the face of the real 1950s

There never was a time like the 1950s — not even during the 1950s. Not if you have in mind the decade of conformity, of moms ...

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