Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France, which has been the target of German aggression three times in the past century, is understandably leary of a reunited Germany, as are Poland, Czechoslovakia and Russia. Among Gaullists, the problem has always been pushed to the background or else treated with gallows humor, such as the crack Novelist François Mauriac once made: "I love Germany so much that I want there to be two of her." Yet recently the inevitability of German reunification has become part of the French consciousness. "All will go very slowly," De Gaulle said last month. "Germany itself must evolve...
...that Heyns has "achieved excellent balance between the rights of the students and the maintenance of the university traditions." Cal President Clark Kerr cites his "keen intelligence, great good sense, and calm but effective style." Former Student President Jerry Goldstein calls him "an absolutely fantastic individual, with warmth and humor...
Many of Twain's books mirror the savage and embittered cynicism that lies on the other side of humor, and all of them are touched with violence and the despair of a man who courted the values of his time and despised himself for doing so. The raft on which Huck Finn and Nigger Jim drift down the river was Twain's own fantasy solution for evading nemesis. It was where he longed...
...disputes Twain's lofty position in literature: he was a true original, unmistakably and incorrigibly American. But critics have endlessly speculated on the astonishing and unfathomable range of a man who could address himself to such disparate subjects as frontier humor (Roughing It), the adventures of youth (Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), chastity (Joan of Arc), obscenity (1601, a privately published Twain excursion into four-letter Tudor conversation), and nihilistic despair (What...
...study of Twain published in 1920 and revised in 1933, Van Wyck Brooks argued that Twain fell short of greatness because he masked his reformer's spirit by writing humorous books-in short, by making a joke of a crusade. Twelve years later, Harvard Critic Bernard De Voto challenged that theory by showing that Twain's very humor was a crusader's weapon. With it, said De Voto, Twain exposed the hypocrisy of a century in which aggrandizement all too often passed under the name of progress. The distinctive virtue of Justin Kaplan's book...