Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more true to life than "The Neighbors." And few cartoonists work harder for realism than George Clark, 51, the short (5 ft. 6 in.), rumpled creator of "The Neighbors." Instead of a belly laugh, Humorist Clark tries for a smile, or at most a chuckle. This folksy, low-key humor has made the cartoon so popular that last week it was being syndicated to some 150 newspapers, from Manhattan's tabloid Daily News to the Sioux Falls (S. Dak.) Argus Leader. It is George Clark's fond hope that every reader will recognize his friends (and himself...
...chose C in both instances, you are an incurable wag and don't deserve success or popularity anyway. Mr. Davis is very firm about humor. You are to write down all jokes and then "brush up on your humor just before you want to use it. This technique is used by some of the most successful salesmen." Of course, that's what Jim used to do, and how far did it get him? Come to think of it. I'll bet Davis isn't so darned good looking. Fat from all those dinners...
Matusow was in good voice and-for part of the time-in good humor. On the stand he idly twisted pipe cleaners into animal forms, shaping a dog, a rabbit and a kangaroo. He testified that he had recently invented "an entertaining, nondestructive toy," but he refused, claiming the immunity granted by the Fifth Amendment, to name the manufacturer for fear of hurting the toy's sales. Curious, Senator Herman Welker persisted: What was the toy? A miniature lie detector? "Well," said Matusow coyly, as the hearing-room crowd roared, "I call it a stringless...
...story. But at its own level, Bus Stop is fresh and engaging. In catching the drift, and once or twice shifting the direction of his characters' lives, Inge has revealed the surface and something of the underside of all anonymous humanity. And by writing with pervasive, even explosive humor-by showing that the way to man's heart can be through his funny bone-Inge has not just brightened, he has also enlarged his picture...
There is far more health and humor to Bus Stop than to Playwright Inge's Picnic, but it too treats largely, at bottom, of lonely lives. If Inge's bus is a convenient stage device, it is yet a striking symbol for his whole lost, seeking, itinerant world. The peripheral figure remains the central one in Inge's gallery. But in Bus Stop there are integrated figures also; the shadows are interlaced with sunlight, the naturalistic brooder is absorbed into the humorist. The difference between the two plays is also partly one of production. Where Picnic...