Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Psychological Crust. Rubinstein has long fortified his total embargo of Germany and Germans with gallows humor ("There are 90 million Jews in the world today. Why? Because there are 30 million Germans, and each reports he personally saved three Jews during the war"). He still harbors the dark suspicion that the presence of one vestigial Nazi dreaming in the dark of a concert hall while listening to a Rubinstein Appassionata would freeze his fingers into furious claws. But the jokes are worn with time, and the thriving German market for Rubinstein recordings has diluted his horror of German ears. Last...
...racial, or a social, outcast. In A Taste of Honey, Britain's Shelagh Delaney, then a semiliterate 18-year-old, gave tongue richly and scathingly to her bitterly impoverished girlhood in industrial Lancashire. Out of her background, she dramatically distilled a kind of urban folk poetry, humor and wisdom, and in a candidly observed relationship between a shiftless mother and a rebel daughter added fresh scenes to the eternal duelogue of parent and child. At 21, she turned again to the short and simple annals of the poor, which, in her vision, are long and squalid...
Spain and then rapidly reprinted all over the Continent. Readers rich and poor were troubled by the author's smiling horror of Renaissance society, but they were also tickled by the scarum scrapes and earthy humor of his hero, a perky little picaro (scalawag) who became the Huck Finn of his century. Aleman, Cervantes, Lesage, Defoe and Fielding were inspired to imitation, and today Lazarillo is acclaimed as the prototype of the picaresque novel, as a handsel of the arriving era of realism in European literature...
...Water Tower. There is bee-stinging humor and zany, zooming fantasy in this new satirical revue by the Second City troupe, as it buzzes busily around Cuba, camp counselors and bombshelter salesmen...
...Poonies had been having the time of their lives, what with all the newly elected candidates blind drunk, smeared with shaving cream, and crawling around on the sidewalks. Then a spoil-sport Cambridge policeman forced the fun-loving humor writers back into their Castle. They streamed out with towels over their faces shortly afterwards when an unidentified student (who can say why?) hurried the bomb into their fortress...