Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ORDWAYS, by William Humphrey. Thanks to the lively comic vision of Novelist Humphrey (Home from the Hill), the Ordways of East Texas, living and dead, make a family tree of Faulknerian dimensions...
Daddy Warbucks is in serious trouble. The egg-bald guardian of that ageless comic-strip carrot top, Little Orphan Annie, has been railroaded into a private insane asylum run by one Dr. Le Quaque. "Worse'n a real prison," says Annie, after casing the place and discovering that patients, as another strip character puts it, "as sane as anybody but labeled crazy are stuck here in this snake pit with no chance o' gettin...
Nobody's home was ever so noisy. There are limbo, jazz and Gay Nineties joints scattered all along San Juan's quaint and narrow streets, Mexican, Cuban, Spanish and Italian nightclubs that rock nightly to trumpets and guitars. Last week Comic Jackie Mason held forth at the Caribe Hilton, Eartha Kitt was belting them out at the Americana, and strolling violins pierced the air in the Shalom Room of the Lee Hotel, which features its own synagogue. For the economy class, San Juan's hotel row has hatched two Red Rooster restaurants ("where corned beef and pastrami...
...satire but few books have ever given them a lustier Bronx cheer than Joseph Heller's sprawling, farcical Catch-22. Yossarian, the Air Corps bombardier who doesn't want to fly any more missions for the mordantly sane reason that he might get killed, is a comic creation that has already become something of a classic. In typical black-humor fashion, Yossarinan's real adversary is nothing less than the whole mad, mucked-up system, the jujitsu with which the bombardier repeatedly sets the system on its duff is achingly familiar to any veteran. Everybody...
...Singular Man, is more ambitious and less successful. Ostensibly the story of George Smith, a beleaguered self-made millionaire, the book is really an almost plotless fantasy set in a New York City that is ruled by death and death's symbols. In it, the author's comic mask slips to reveal the skull that grins beneath...