Word: humoristic
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Dinner at Eddie's inevitably begins with the sound of a cork popping from a bottle of Asti Spumante. "We call it lemonade," he remarks with a grin. As he pours the spirits so Bernays, begins his outpouring of questions. He plays at once the inquisitor and the humorist, drawing people out of their shells of self-consciousness to see what they are made of Subtly, he demands the intimacy of everyone whom he encounters. The topic of discussion turns to Harvard. "The university," lectures Bernays, "is suffering from a cultural time lag of about four hundred years, since...
...FIRST 60 YEARS, P.G. Wodehouse, probably the finest English humorist of the 20th century, had lived a charmed life. In his stories he created an idyllic world, one of wealth and leisure, where no problem was so great that it could not be solved by some quick thinking and a touch of light-hearted deception. His books were magic elixers to the troubled souls of his readers. Like a few stiff drinks, but without the side-effects, a P.G. Wodehouse story could make even the most distressed reader forget about his problems for a while. And his public paid...
...England weighed heavily against him, and as late as 1975, when Wodehouse died at the age of 93, there were still many who believed him at best a Nazi sympathizer. In Wodehouse at War, Iain Sproat, a member of the British Parliament and a long-time admirer of the humorist, presents strong evidence that the charges against Wodehouse were unfounded...
...Utah Phillips--folksinger, storyteller and humorist; First Congregational Church, 11 Garden...
DIED. Harry Golden, 79, humorist-cum-moralist who used the pages of his one-man newspaper, the Carolina Israelite, to celebrate the vagaries of life and attack racial discrimination, collecting his writings in the bestsellers Only in America (1958), For 2? Plain (1959) and Enjoy, Enjoy! (1960); of a heart attack; in Charlotte, N.C. A Jewish immigrant's son who was reared on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the portly, cigar-chomping Golden gravitated to the South and in 1941 founded the Israelite, which in its 26 years of publication numbered Harry Truman, Earl Warren, Adlai Stevenson...