Word: humoristic
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Arriving in London as the sole American to join the West End version of last season's Broadway revue, A Thurber Carnival, Humorist James Thurber, 66, stated his canny reason for coming to Britain. "No one seems to die over here," said Thurber. "Every time they try to hold a memorial service, the corpse writes in to say he's feeling fine. In America, love after 40 is obscene, work after 50 is unlikely, and death before 60 is practically certain...
...governed world, its rancid taste an assault on respectability. Less than a philosopher and more than a buffoon, Behan is chiefly an insatiable human being. He is no one's cup of tea who recoils from finding it sloshed into a saucer, no one's humorist who, for being outraged, can't be amused. If his people often have the rackety mirth of Burns's Jolly Beggars, and the cynical morality...
Angles & Bells. Hollywood, for its part, isn't going for the angle. Groucho Marx, not even bothering to make his bark witty, summed up one school of local opinion by calling Susskind "this phony New York intellectual." In a Daily Variety column. Humorist Max Shulman wrote of "Mr. Susskind, the noted television trailblazer. who gave us a video adaptation of The Bells of St. Mary's." Susskind sniffed: "People mention these things to me. but I absolutely refuse to read the local papers and the trade papers. I only read the New York papers...
...heroine of Humorist Ludwig Bemelmans' new novel is as pretty as a picture, and she poses an interesting proposition. "Evildoing when done adroitly is very exciting." she purrs. What follows should be naughty and very funny. It is nightmarish instead-like too much Liederkranz. In one of his rare excursions outside the Hotel Splendide, Funnyman Bemelmans draws a demon-driven adolescent who swears like a legionnaire, squeezes the head of an infant like a tennis ball, flips hatchets instead of hips at suitors, does her best to entice a priest, and sets fire to a convent...
...from the Farmer. The liberal New York Post was almost inevitably reminded of a quip made by Humorist Goodman Ace: "Public opinion polls reach everyone in America, from the farmer in his field right up to the President of the United States, Thomas E. Dewey." But to Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, Gallup's 1960 post-convention poll was downright sinister. The polls, cried Gore, are "almost meaningless and in many instances misleading," but they still have an "entirely unjustified" influence on elections. With that, Gore hinted at an investigation of the pollsters by the Senate Privileges...