Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should you need any proof of this man's cosmic dullness, just browse through The Wit and Humor of Richard Nixon, a serious attempt by Bill Adler to reveal "the Nixon noboby knows. . . a humorist in the genuine American grain (who) has displayed a delightful sense of humor, a sharp wit, and a unique ability to bring laughter." For all is good intentions, this book reveals the man in the White House to be just what we knew he was all long--the worst item to hit the American cultural scene since plastic...
...think he's getting more job satisfaction than he has at any time in his life," says a longtime associate. Adds another aide: "You might even say he's more human." His sense of humor has not suffered, as he showed when John Ehrlichman related to him a conversation with Charles de Gaulle in Paris. The French President was fascinated by Ehrlichman's intricate duties as chief campaign advance man in 1968: organizing the ballyhoo, the bands, the balloons, the crowds. "By the way," Ehrlichman told Nixon, "I signed up for three months in 1972 to handle...
...toward Grant." As it turned out, this was one of those rare literary legacies in which, considering the subject, the heir is apparently superior to the original author. Just as Lewis was ideal as Sherman's biographer, so Catton's quiet lucidity and laconic humor are precisely what is needed to amplify and examine Grant's elusive but enduring qualities...
...take solace in the sick joke. You can think about how this mess could be even worse than it already is. You can stay a step ahead of this progression of American society, feel superior to it, feel creative, laugh and enjoy. Black humor becomes a black plague, and the plague becomes an orgy of delight...
...former writer on the Laugh-In and Soul shows, warns that the "here-come-de-judge syndrome can be very dangerous, because it is apt to convince white audiences that Negroes are, after all, just kidding." He misses the point. No matter what the show or how limp the humor, the "Yassuh, boss" jokes are still, basically, satire...