Word: humoristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Story of Will Rogers (Warner) is an unusual Hollywood film biography It is both faithful to the facts of Cowboy-Humorist Rogers' life, and has in Will Rogers Jr., playing the title role, almost a carbon copy of his famous father...
Some of the best modern writers have been self-conscious artists, working for the admiration of small followings and often requiring cabalistic analysis before they could be fully understood. Not, however, Sholom Aleichem, the Ukraine-born Yiddish humorist who died in The Bronx 36 years ago. Sholom Aleichem (real name: Solomon Rabinowitz) was a genuine folk artist. Between himself and his Yiddish public throughout the world there was an instinctive understanding; they could grasp his twists of idiom, his slightest reference to a Torah phrase or a ghetto custom...
...effort to bring him to a wider audience, three of Aleichem's books have been translated into English in recent years. The first two (TIME, June 24, 1946 and Jan. 31, 1949), collections of stories, revealed him as a tender satirist and a wild humorist who sometimes capered off into the topsy-turvy world of surrealism. The third book, Wandering Star, is a rambling, picaresque novel about the life of Yiddish actors in the Europe of 50 or 60 years ago. Aleichem wrote best in the story form, but Wandering Star, for all its meandering pace, is often...
...Blatherskites!" snorted Humorist James Thurber, is the word for congressional Red-probers. "The end of American comedy is in sight, and the theater's gone to hell . . . Who can write where everybody's scared? ... I hate Communism . . . but I happen to be on one of those letterheads with Paul Robeson-and I'm not getting off ... because I'm not letting any Congressman scare me to death...
...appointed censors] want people to laugh only at the approved jokes. No more levity when it comes to religion, intelligence tests, foreign accents and insanity . . . Bad taste. Why, the great tradition of American humor is built upon 'bad taste,' if you want to call it that. The humorist works with material from life, not a Hollywood-soap-opera version...