Word: humoristic
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...people on the committee wanted somebody humorous," Ross said yesterday, "but they didn't want a political candidate in an election year. Since Buchwald is a political humorist, we were very glad...
Ross said that Buchwald will not receive a fee for his speech, but will be provided with funds for travelling and lodging expenses. He is the second consecutive humorist to be chosen as Class Day Speaker, following comedian/activist Dick Gregory who spoke at last year's exercises...
These classroom antics, all part of two seminars involving the performing arts, are par for the courses at the New School, where the curriculum more closely reflects the thinking of Phineas T. Barnum than that of James B. Conant. Humorist Lily Tomlin recently stood on her head to refresh herself while teaching a class on satire. John Lennon will be the guest lecturer this week in a course called Making It in Rock. The New School Bulletin, a catalogue that might be better titled The Best of Club Med and Esalen East, routinely offers courses like Psycho-karate, Body Language...
Died. H. Allen Smith, 68, pungent humorist-author of 36 books, many of them bestsellers; of undetermined causes; in San Francisco. A onetime altar boy and chicken picker, Smith quit school after the eighth grade and began newspapering. In 1941 he was feature writing for the New York World Telegram when he published bestselling Low Man on a Totem Pole, enabling him to quit his job and concentrate on humor. Always the newsman, Smith saw himself as a reporter who was funny only because "the world is funny...
Died. Frank Sullivan, 83, gentle humorist and supreme authority on American clichés who for 50 years gave the benefit of his amiable wit to the readers of the old New York World, The New Yorker magazine and his twelve books; after a long illness; in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. A native of Saratoga Springs, Sullivan knuckled down to work at age ten, pumping water for thirsty bettors at the nearby race track. He graduated from Cornell in 1914, and headed home to report for the local Saratogian at $7 a week. After World War I, Sullivan moved...