Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Santayana attended Harvard College during the years 1882-86. He wrote for a magazine, "The Harvard Monthly," and was a cartoonist for the Lampoon. He did no writing for the humor magazine, however, because "My English was too literary, too ladylike, too correct for such a purpose; I never acquired, or like the American art of perpetual joking...
...College humor magazines are on the way out, prophesied the editor of the Princeton Tiger in a recent article. This month, without fanfare, the Lampoon proves he was right. The former funny magazine has switched, for the most part, to political articles and avant-garde fiction...
...short, the Lampoon's addition of some serious pieces has been but moderately successful. One can only guess whether or not its editors will accelerate the trend and abolish the magazine's humor completely. If so, the Advocate will have a new and formidable rival...
...perhaps sounds like a standard Western plot. But is interesing portrayal of both Indians and fur trappers make The Big Sky quite a bit better than average. Kirk Douglas, in a role cast from the mold of James Fenimore Cooper's "Hawkeye," strikes a good balance between heroism and humor. And the leading lady is a real Indian...
...CRIMSON editor Sack had a neat flair for high drama and low humor, too often constricted here within the inelastic form of a news story. He runs afoul of no such limitations in The Butcher. Sack's book splits roughly into halves. The first half outlines the expedition's halting progress to the base of the mountain. It is very funny. He starts from the labor pains of the expedition, when it was busy accumulating radios which refused to work and storing breakfast food--eagerly pressed into the hands of the climbers by an enterprising cereal manufacturer--in the living...