Word: humoristic
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...play's delight lies in the parodies, its unavoidable weakness in the occasional dips into ho-hum solemnity. Playwright George Herman's academician alter-ego elbows aside the comic dramatist, forcing a meaning which the humorist could carry less intrusively. Herman's over-seriousness trips us the cast as well. The two straight scenes suffer from awkward blocking and sags in tempo while the comic sections skip around similar problems. What's worse, the dialogue smothers itself under a dead weight of philosophizing. Fortunately, Herman's didactic compulsion interfere only infrequently, and the comedy is allowed to bounce ahead...
...intriguing thing is that he has said just that on 25 trips round the country during the past ten months. Since last August, he has also raced abroad to India, Israel and Sweden on a trajectory that would mark any other man as a candidate in full stride. Humorist Art Buchwald, reflecting on such a frenetically busy noncandidacy, fantasied Kennedy riding up Fifth Avenue "in an open convertible, with his wife Joan, hoping to discourage New Yorkers from considering him as a Democratic hopeful...
...borrowed from a wealthy uncle on Wall Street to buy the Modern Library from that failing firm for $200,000, later used its reprint profits to form a new company that would publish books at random, hence the name Random House. Despite his latter-day public reputation as syndicated humorist and smirking jokester of TV's What's My Line?, Cerf the publisher had a shrewd eye for quality: Random House, now a subsidiary of RCA, helped break America's obscenity barrier by printing James Joyce's Ulysses in 1934, created a wide U.S. audience...
Moments later, we were cruising over Longfellow Bridge to Cambridge and M.I.T. We went by a dormitory, and Phil pointed it out to us. "That building houses something of interest," he said. "Girls." By this time it had become clear that Phil was a humorist...
Dogs barked, cats hissed, turtles raced and gerbils skittered all over Ethel Kennedy's Hickory Hill. The 13th annual pet show for the benefit of Northwest Settlement House (admission $3.50) was making the welkin ring with the help of highly amplified announcements by Humorist Art Buchwald, in full ringmaster's regalia. Seven of Ethel's eleven offspring were on hand, and so was Uncle Ted-Ted Kennedy, the painter, that is. Next day, his painting Red Shack brought the high bid of $3,000 at an art auction in Boston for the benefit of the Kennedy Library...