Word: humoristic
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...typically exasperated shopper. Throughout the nation last week, food prices were a major concern. AFL-CIO Boss George Meany complained that in his favorite Mrs. Adler's matzoh-ball soup, the number of malzoh balls per can had sunk from four to three, in effect raising the price. Humorist Art Buchwald fantasized that President Nixon will lake to the TV screens and ask, as an ultimate post-Lenten sacrifice, for his fellow Americans simply to stop eating. In an ad for a Washington supermarket chain, Esther Peterson, who had been Lyndon Johnson's consumer affairs adviser, appealed...
...paper that isn't tied to inherited ideas of what an event is"; it is attracting a number of good new journalists, both men and women. Von Hoffman himself specially requested that his own freewheeling column run in the "Style" section of the Post, as did Humorist Art Buchwald. Said Von Hoffman: "People read the women's page far oftener than the editorial page, where our big hitters hold forth...
WILL ROGERS held a special place in the hearts of Americans in the 1920's and 30's. He was a phenomenally popular American entertainer: humorist, cowboy, actor, lecturer of sorts, radio broadcaster, and syndicated columnist. Now James Whitmore brings Will back to life in a delightful performance of his jokes and stories, Will Rogers' U.S.A...
...HUMORIST-Sociologist Lee Weiner, 32, member of the Chicago Seven. Weiner's appointment to the Rutgers faculty was controversial from the start, but his real trouble apparently came from a birthday party for Black Panther Leader Bobby Scale. A New York Times reporter asked Weiner what he was doing nowadays, and he jokingly answered, "I'm trying to organize a new kind of Communist Party in New Jersey." New Jersey legislators protested to Governor William Cahill. Weiner, anxious not to jeopardize his academic future, agreed to leave...
...corruption. But to read 212 pages of him at a sitting is a mistake. He is most effective in his newspaper, where the reader can wade expectantly toward him through bloated accounts of disaster, inhumanity, avarice and hypocrisy. Russell Baker can then best be appreciated doing what a good humorist has always done: writing to preserve his sanity for at least one more...