Word: humoristic
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...deserts and woodlands, people who want vacation homes are scrambling to pick up pieces of the good earth. They are being joined by speculators, who have rediscovered in real estate the fast-buck thrills that a droopy stock market rarely provides. Citizens are taking seriously the advice of Humorist Will Rogers: "Buy land. They ain't makin'any more...
...cottage-cheese industry of humor, parody, songs and stories, all looking for the bright aside on one of the nation 's darker episodes. Perhaps the brightest and best of the topical genre appeared last week in the New Republic, written by Chicago's Judith Wax, 42, a humorist best known for her annual summaries in verse of the year's news in Playboy. Her model was Chaucer, who would surely have understood Watergate as well as any other bygone man, and her mode mock Middle English, including pseudoscholarly footnotes...
Writer Greenburg is a good-natured humorist whose essays and novels (How to Be a Jewish Mother, Scoring) have demonstrated a shrewd and compassionate eye for the frets and frustrations of middlebrow, middle-class urban America. His first film script is a similarly gentle, knowing throwaway. Director McCarty is careful to make no big deal of it, and his quartet of players is attractively fumble-thumbed in their efforts to have their decorum and shed it too. I Could Never may be the least important - certainly the least pretentious - movie of the year. But it is far from the least...
...contribute something new or call attention to some neglected aspect . . ." An example of the latter is Wilson's emphasis on Mencken's habitual confusion in thinking and his dogmatic German brutality . . . We never expected coherence of Mencken. He was a poet in prose and a humorist...
...problems but at ignoring or minimizing them, which in the end only magnified the difficulties. Building understanding, nurturing belief, and preserving the integrity of the presidency was their real job, not running motorcades and guarding the office door. It is of considerable interest that the Administration's leading humorist and bon vivant-its most accessible major official-is Henry Kissinger, untouched by scandal and clearly the man who has achieved the most...