Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stag At Eve" which a few years ago made quite a sensation with its robust and not too polite humor was followed by a series of inferior imitations. The same publishers have brought out a new volume this season entitled "The Bedroom Companion or A Cold Nights Entertainment," which should prove in its own way a very popular successor. Written nominally for male consumption, one may easily predict that it will have universal feminine appeal, or at least more than it should...
Fellow 6., swell but eccentric--a cynic, quick thinker, unusual sense of humor--innate idealism; Fellow 7., friendly and hard working . . . no originality or wit . . . doesn't talk much...
Fellow 12., certainly not a grind; Fellow 13., reasonably intelligent, but scarcely brilliant . . . grave sense of humor; Fellow 14., intellectually on his toes, confirmed pacifist, sees through things easily; Fellow 15., not completely submerged in studies...
...hillbilly ballads of their native region. Readers who assume that these intellectuals speak for all Tennessee are in danger of missing some of the most picturesque writing in current U. S. letters. Opposed to them is a younger set of mountain folk who possess much more enthusiasm, much more humor, much less book-learning. One member of this second group is Jesse Stuart, 28-year-old author of Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, a volume of 703 colloquial sonnets characterizing the poet's neighbors, sweethearts and kinsfolk. Another is Don West, six-foot radical poet released fortnight...
...modern figures, Ellis is less successful. Obviously disliking Proust, obviously repelled by Proust's mysterious masterpiece, he makes a stubborn attempt to evaluate the work and analyze its author, does not seem to grasp their significance in terms of contemporary literature and thought. Yet the note of benign humor that runs through all Ellis' work is also evident in From Rousseau to Proust. Quoting a line from Restif de la Bretonne's licentious memoirs: "How pretty the girls are at Auxerre!" the aged philosopher observed, "I have found myself independently making precisely the same remark . . . though with...