Word: humoristic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slight, polite, shy man of 52, Shawn was groomed for years to take over. An old New Yorker hand recalls Shawn's arrival on the staff in 1933: "To him, it was like entering the priesthood." Says James Thurber, the peerless humorist, now 65, who chronicled the earlier era in The Years with Ross: "There was no question that Ross wanted Shawn to succeed him, and the whole staff was pulling for him, too." It still is. Shawn is a gentle boss, and so sensitive to writers' feelings that he once called Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan in Havana...
...Thurber Carnival. The men, women and dogs that chase one another through Humorist James Thurber's mind come yakking and yipping to the stage in a grand, slightly bland evening...
...Thurber Carnival. The men, women and dogs that chase one another through Humorist James Thurber's mind come yakking and yipping to the stage in a grand, slightly bland evening...
...bare in a book titled The Father: Letters to Sons and Daughters, edited by Evan Jones and published last week (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $3.95)In 1950, not long after his young daughter Isabel had gone to Paris and succumbed to "the romantic alchemy" of a much older, married man, Humorist Ogden Nash wrote a prescription: "Keep on having your gay time, but just keep yourself in hand, and remember that generally speaking it's better to call older men Mister." In 1930, India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru was serving the fifth of his nine terms in British jails...
...Thurber Carnival. In the country of Humorist James Thurber, there is a nut behind every tree: Tom Ewell, Paul Ford, Alice Ghostley, Peggy Cass, John McGiver...