Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...innovation. His proposal for uniform national-welfare payments certainly deserves consideration as a practical means of stopping the flow of rural poor, white as well as black, to big-city slums. While he is appallingly insensitive and callous, few can deny Agnew's personal decency and quiet sense of humor. Most independent observers agree that the New York Times made much out of little in charging that his Maryland financial dealings made him unfit for the Vice-Presidency. And despite his harsh indictments of black rioters and looters, his record on race relations has in general been sensible...
Despite his defeat, Edmund Muskie emerged as one of the most personable and articulate major finds of national politics since John F. Kennedy. His relaxed campaigning manner, understated Yankee humor and forthrightness in dealing with the issues won the respect of many voters who had barely heard of him only a month or two ago. In many districts, Humphrey probably slid in on Muskie's coattails; Muskie obviously could provide much of the leadership of the Democratic Party during the next four years. He faces a reelection race for the Senate in 1970, but in 1972 will surely...
...does not deny his forebears. His caricatures, whether of Bertrand Russell looking like a stately pelican or D. H. Lawrence with two female legs kicking orgiastically from beneath his shaggy forelock, acknowledge their indebtedness to Sir John Tenniel and Sir Max Beerbohm. Much of Levine's bite and humor are caused by the juxtaposition of dated technique and contemporary subject. When it comes to watercolors, his style is equally traditional, and he finds it most unfair that critics who admire his caricatures turn against his watercolors for the same reason. Says he: "It is quite all right to refer...
...down the best items, the group trooped off in search of other bars and other public lavatories. It was a typical field trip for Anthropology 2675-2, "Graffiti: Past and Present," which Reisner teaches at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Though conducted with much low good humor, the course is anything but frivolous. The graffito, explains Reisner, "is always a sensitive barometer of change in popular preoccupations. It is a twilight means of communication between the anonymous man and the world...
...reason: a series of shows stuffed with college humor, culminating in last Saturday's Princeton performance...