Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...straight adventure comics, now makes $40,000 a year. In the dead-serious world of comic-strip nerves, Cartoonist Stamm has a simple reason for Stainless' popularity: "His saving grace is that he isn't deadly serious like most heroes. He's got a sense of humor...
Such assets help, even more than the humor, in this success story of the wife-made man. They brighten up Barrie's essentially unattractive characters. Those hard bargainers and dull conversationalists, the Wylie brothers, are saved by their affection for Maggie. An egocentric John Shand is saved by a humorlessness that makes him funny. And Maggie herself, whose maiden name wasn't Wylie for nothing, becomes an actress' dream part through the love that inspires the wiles...
...psychological contraption. For though he seems doomed to make millions, Disney is not a businessman; and though occasionally he is capable of fine folk art, he is not an "artist." Furthermore, though he has probably tickled more risibilities than Charlie Chaplin, he does not really have much sense of humor. Walt Disney is a genuine hand-hewn American original with the social adze-marks sticking out all over; he is a garage-type inventor with a wild guess in his eye and a hard pinch on his penny, a grassroots genius in the native tradition of Thomas A. Edison...
...undertaken to streamline Fenimore Cooper for moderns. A lifelong Cooper fan who played make-believe Deerslayer as an Illinois farmboy, Nevins has taken the five Leatherstocking tales-The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The Prairie-shorn away the interminable love passages and faded humor, deftly stitched the rest together to fit into one handsome volume. Modern readers may smile at some of Cooper's dialogue, written in the days before Mark Twain cleared the air ("Manifest no distrust," says their escort to two beautiful girls wandering through Indian-infested forests...
...poem than how he made a living. But even as he fell back on lecturing for money to radio listeners and the matronly bands of U.S. "culture-vultures," as he called them, Poet Thomas whirled his economic crutch like a pinwheel. These pieces testify to his roving eye, roguish humor and beery vision of the human condition. He can draw a third-person self-portrait as accurately as a brilliant cartoonist or observant cop: "He's five foot six and a half. Thick blubber lips; snub nose; curly mouse-brown hair; one front tooth broken . . . speaks rather fancy; truculent...