Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First is his brand of humor, which Parsons thinks appeals to most people in academic circles. He has a hunch that the Republican attack on Stevenson's humor may backfire radically. "It is one of the glories of the American people that they have more of a sense of humor than most nations," he said. "They don't, like a man who can't take a joke, even if it's on himself...
...make good drama. O. Henry's lack of character delineation forces an actor to use his script as a bare guide. In three of Full House's five stories, the casts are able to fill in O. Henry's deficiencies; in the other two, the sweet is sugery, the humor forced, and the bitter melodramatic...
...soar far beyond O. Henry's narrow limits in The Cop and the Anthem. Both are tramps who spend the summer in New York's parks, the winter in its jails. But getting into "a nice, warm cell" is not as easy as one might think. Blending pathos with humor, Laughton steals an umbrella, breaks a window, swindles a restaurant--all unnoticed by the police. In the best tradition of O. Henry irony, he is nabbed just when he decides to turn respectable...
...American politics, but he has only added to its staleness. He has shown no knowledge of domestic affairs--his empty speeches only prove the deficiency--he has had no political experience, and his campaign has wandered haphazardly from Peace to The Mess to his opponent's sense of humor. On foreign affairs, where he is meant to be an expert, all he has offered is a restatement of Democratic policy on Europe, in terms just different enough to cause havoc abroad, and a restatement of the old Republican line on Asia. Contrast the General's speeches with Stevenson...
During his undergraduate days Santayana worked for the Lampoon and "The Harvard Monthly," a literary periodical. He was elected to the humor magazine on the basis of two cartoons he had submitted at the start of his freshman year. One of them depicts two young ladies depositing their luggage in Holyoke House (then a dormitory), and reprimanding the "clerk," a Harvard senior, for inefficient service in "this hotel." He never did ay writing for the Lampoon, because, he remarked, his style was"too literary, too ladylike, too correct...