Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Break Away. But relief was not in sight. The smaller local stations felt the show's humor too delicate and subtly modulated for listener tastes (though K.F.&O. once had a Sullivan-sized rating of 72% of the TV audience, drew 8,000 letters a week, went out over 57 stations). "There's no right place in TV for us any more." said 39-year-old Puppeteer Tillstrom. "People in TV would rather make money than provide entertainment." He was relieved to leave "the world of ulcers and tranquilizers. If a man has anything in his heart...
...installing tartly satiric views on topical issues (and late deadlines to keep right up with them), brought in name contributors and able critics, all but abandoned the moss-grown cover for bright and varied modern ones. He even succeeded frequently in making Punch what Englishmen never expected the old humor magazine to be, i.e., funny. Last week, at 54, Editor Muggeridge announced that he was resigning. Reason: there is nothing left to change if the magazine is still to be Punch...
...husband, and bore him to death. She turns his spinster sister into her slavish admirer. Her gentle publisher views her with pity and terror. Nearly everyone else is appalled by her selfishness, her indifference to the pain of others. But people cannot touch her, for Angel is totally without humor and icily armored against embarrassment, against all reality...
Hives Ready to Swarm. Knox's humor sparked and crackled through everything he did. Writing of the Mass, he remarked that the recurring word or emus (let us pray) "serves as a useful sort of alarm clock to wake us up at various points." Speaking of non-Roman Catholic denominations, he said: "With all respect to them ... all the identity discs in heaven are marked RC." His most widely quoted witticism is also one of the most famed Limericks in the language, kidding Bishop Berkeley's doctrine that things exist only when observed...
Cozzens' favorite writer is Swift. Among moderns, he prefers Maugham, Huxley and the early Waugh-all of which suggests that he is an ironist in default of being a satirist, possibly for lack of humor or savagery. Like any good storyteller, James Gould Cozzens peddles no "message." Says he: "I have no thesis except that people get a very raw deal from life. To me, life is what life...