Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belcher's blatant bohemianism and his contrastingly quiet humor were enough to endear him to the public, but it was the strict realism of his easel paintings which impressed Britain's stuffy Royal Academicians. In 1945 they made him a member...
...pains, Belcher once spent two hours roasting a chicken to precisely the right shade of brown for painting. Though other Punch favorites, such as Rowland Emett and Fougasse, relied more on fantasy or stylization for their effect, Belcher never felt the least temptation to desert, or improve on, the humor of the world around him. Last week, at 72, he died...
...easy, intimate way, Howard Vincent ("Pat") O'Brien gave his public what he thought they wanted-"pathos comes first, humor second, with 'big thoughts' (economics, politics, etc.) trailing badly." His column in the Chicago Daily News, called "All Things Considered," was just that: pleasant musings about cats, commuting, sunspots, watercolors, dishwashing and his daughter's debut...
...dictating machine, datelined it "Cell 308." Some of his readers thought he had eye trouble; his sight had been failing for a long time. Not till three months ago did Pat tell his readers that he had cancer. Even then he tried to give them humor, albeit tightlipped. He wrote: "[The cancer] was near the base of the spine. . . . Getting it out involved considerable damage to adjacent and innocent property. ... It was as if a crew of firemen were trying to get a safe . . . out of the third story of a burning building. The stairs were on fire, so they...
Pritchett is most at home writing about the English tradition of picaresque heroes and prurient heroines. The 17th and 18th Centuries, he believes, produced literary techniques which later novelists have been wise to adopt. Smollett developed the physical realism and "chamberpot humor" which characterizes much of Joyce. Richardson introduced the "principle of procrastinated rape [which] is said to be the ruling one in all the great best-sellers." Fielding, Pritchett says, is the granddaddy of them all: in his work the reader can not only "pick out the perennial characters of the main part of English fiction, but . . . many...