Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, by Philip Roth, is a comic sex novel of the absurd, told in the form of a frenzied monologue by a 33-year-old Jewish bachelor on his psychiatrist's couch...
ADAPTATION-NEXT. Elaine May, a corrosively perceptive satirist with a mean comic punch, is director of both of these humorous one-acters. Adaptation, which Miss May wrote as well, has the ironic viewpoint that life is a game played on the contestant. In Terrence McNally's Next, James Coco gives a fine performance as a potbellied, middle-aged businessman summoned for the draft through an obvious computer error...
...Baez dedicated a song to her husband, a convicted draft resister, with the preface: "He is going to prison for three years. The reason is that he resisted selective service and the draft and militarism in general." The second sentence was cut. Also deleted were such soporific bits as Comic Jackie Mason's gag about children playing doctor. There really must be something to the game, Mason said, because "Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if he wanted to become...
...metaphysical obsession with Wirthof, an SS officer with grand passions and grandiose ideas. Though the two are totally disparate in personality and background, Kazakh feels that his own identity has somehow been submerged in Wirthof s (to an extent reversing the situation in Remain Gary's 1968 comic novel, The Dance of Genghis Cohri). Says Kazakh: "Wirthof still glitters in me, on my energy, in my time: that mica glitter of his: that is the source of my exhaustion; if only he would glitter less I would not have to despise him so much, and how much time...
...humor in this book, if Adler had not scrupulously avoided all of Nixon's Red-baiting witticisms from Joe McCarthy days, or his pre-assassination remarks on he Kennedys (Jack and Bobby). On the other hand, Alder evidently decided that Adlai Stevenson (who died of natural causes) was acceptable comic terrain for the book, so among Nixon's Wit and Humor is the gem, "Stevenson is a pathetic Hamlet strolling across the political stage. To be or not to be--that is the question of him. And I assure you he is not going to be President of the United...