Word: humoristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known Shulmaniacs currently at large in the U.S. This cultish tribe spends easy ($3.50 per spindly copy of Rally Round the Flag, Boys!) and laughs easy-at soggy puns, campus wheezes, G.I. antics and leering badinage about the hot-and-cold war between the sexes. As a humorist, Max (Barefoot Boy with Cheek) Shulman is a kind of roadhouse Wodehouse, a breezy, rattlebrained funnyman whose books can and probably should be read with...
...tries to develop this idea humorously but fails, because she never makes up her mind whether she is going to be an intellectual or a humorist. Being one obviously does not preclude being the other, but Miss Wright is neither intelligently humorous nor humorously intelligent. She is Gertrude Stein reciting a comic monologue, which is absurd but not funny...
...this is Christmas time, and it really doesn't matter. Of the lot, Parkinson is the only competent humorist, but nobody cares about this when purchasing a book to give to Aunt Sally. These books are all in some way "funny," and that is all that counts come Christmas...
...open letter to Lubar Steinberg, the first serious writing he had ever published, Israel's leading humorist, Ephraim Kishon, said that "this nightmare of yours is shared by many of us." Editorialized the daily Haaretz: "The basic question is whether Israel is a state of free citizens whose rights are equal without discrimination of race, or whether it is the preserve only of those who have entered the covenant of our father Abraham. The answer of the rabbinate and the religious parties is unequivocal. The fence that separated Aharon Steinberg from the other dead of Pardes Hanna symbolizes...
...week deskman on Harold Wallace Ross's The New Yorker. Thurber was then 32; The New Yorker had just turned two; and Editor Ross, at 34, was already the whip-wielding crank who was to inspire and bedevil staffers until his death in 1951. In the November Atlantic Humorist Thurber started a serialized memoir of Ross by recalling their early days together...