Word: epigrames
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...enough, the funny stuff is concocted with the most hackneyed characters imaginable: a personable young man of high principles, a fresh-faced ingenue, a jaded roue, and a belligerent Irish cop. The plot is too complicated to discuss, and wouldn't be worth it anyway; the humor derives from epigram and situation...
...integral." Thoreau early loathed the time-serving bondage in which he pictured most of his fellow men as trapped, leading lives of quiet desperation: "What is sacrificed to time is lost to eternity." Regarding newspaper-reading as a monstrous waste of time, Thoreau later played the punster with this epigram: "Read not the Times. Read the eternities...
...late Thomas Mann, is a classic instance of deutscher Witz: a good joke, badly told but brilliantly explained, heartily laughed at by the teller, laboriously retold from several other angles, and reduced, in conclusion, to its philosophic essence. In this case, unfortunately, the essence is a dull epigram. "Love the world," Mann's hero cries, "and the world will love you." The statement expresses the mercantile theory of morals, and Mann's man (Henry Bookholt), faithfully represented on the screen, is intended to embody it. Born in the Rhineland, Felix Krull begins life...
...classmates were a typical Harvard menagerie, a group which was sorry for many things and many people, including Shaw. There was an elegant young dawdler who spent most of his time in Paris and just couldn't read Sir James Barrie; and the epigram-maker with the splintered promise of a satiric wisdom; and the young man of little backbone and less originality who betrayed--to his ridicule--a stammering eagerness...
Despite Certain Women, Caldwell says he is "no authority" on his chosen subject, is willing to sum up his views on women with a well-known epigram that he attributes to his grandfather: "The happy man is the one who has three women in his life-his mother, wife and mistress...