Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. A first novel about three castoffs of American society who come to rest in New Orleans. Author Stone has achieved a rare combination of humor, despair and moral wrath...
...HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. A first novel about three castoffs of American society who come to rest in New Orleans. Author Stone has achieved a rare combination of humor, despair and moral wrath...
...They stand idle," says Soviet Humorist Boris Egorov without much humor, "because no one understands how they were built or how to operate them. There are no repairmen or instruction books." As for the Russian lucky enough to own a car, he can forget about mechanics if it breaks down; there are so few of them that the state requires anyone wanting a driver's license to be able to take apart the engine and make basic repairs himself...
...fatalistic sense of humor also helps. IBM executives like to joke that their corporate initials stand for "I've Been Moved." "We're in the business of landscaping for other people," cracks Frank Allston, who has moved six times while working for General Electric's press-relations department. "We seed lawns and plant shrubbery-and then another family takes the house." Adds another constant mover: "There are three ways of assuring you'll be transferred: finish building a house, buy a new house, or have your wife pregnant...
...humor magazine, the Lampoon is embarrassing and not even comparable with the ones at Texas or Stanford. The members make a lot of money for their organization by devising clever parodies; their contacts in the publishing world don't hurt either. They are sharp people who answer a need remote to the times. Undoubtedly, the Poonies have a great time, and some of them are among the best, most amusing undergraduates to be found at Harvard. They deserve the right to become a final club and to quit worrying about publishing a quarterly rag sheet...