Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's marathon airline strike last week reached almost comic proportions, but nobody felt much like laughing. After collective bargaining broke down, President Roy Siemiller of the striking International Association of Machinists agreed to urge his 35,400 members to submit the dispute to binding arbitration. That seemed a sensible enough way to end the strike without having Congress vote the machinists back to work, but it must have been too sensible. Siemiller conferred with his underlings and A.F.L.-C.l.O. Chairman George Meany, then backed down and ruled out voluntary arbitration. Later in the week, said angered Labor Secretary...
...often psychologically reluctant to forsake the emotional security of the ghetto and financially incapable of doing so. It is the educated Negro with a middle or upper income who is most eager-and able-to get out of the ghetto and explore the society around him. Actor-Comic Bill Cosby (costar of TV's / Spy) lives in a $70,000 Beverly Hills spread, for example, and Federal Reserve Board Governor Andrew Brimmer in a $55,000 home in Washington's Forest Hills...
Fiedler hurts from the raw places in contemporary life where the minority -Negro, Jew, social dissident or sexual deviate-is abraded by community judgment. In his latest book, which consists of three comic novellas, he laughs as he plays confident conjuring tricks with cards of racial identity...
Died. Lenny Bruce, 40, nightclub performer, leading outpatient of the sick-comic school; of suspected narcotics poisoning; in Hollywood. Son of an "exotic dancer," trained as a burlesque comedian. Bruce was never in tune with this world, and he soured totally in the 1950s after his beautiful blonde wife became a drug addict, leaving him with an infant daughter. From Manhattan to Hollywood, he viewed life as a four-letter word and, with gestures, commented blackly on it, never lacking for listeners and finding some curious champions (among them: Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Poet Robert Lowell). His path led ever lower...
...novelists write mostly in the first person, and that person speaks comic-strip American: jive jabber, Al Capptions, sportsese. What he says is ironic, defensive, cool, often comical. In all of these novels, the tone of the talk matters more than the shape of the plot. The new pops derive from the traditional novel of sensibility, but their sensibility is fresh and American. Their anti-heroes are the self and abstract of the lonely crowd, the Jonah wandering lost in the modern Leviathan...