Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Safety in Humor. Can any man be safe from involuntary confession or conversion? A few may, says Dr. Sargant guardedly. But not the "average man" or the well-adjusted extravert-he is already a conformist and will be more suggestible than other subjects. Neither does it do any good to be openly hostile; by the ultraparadoxical reaction, the most violent anti-Communists are as susceptible to brainwashed conversion as those originally friendly to Communism. The man best able to resist, says Dr. Sargant, is likely to be a husky, phlegmatic type with a good sense of humor...
...dissection of rottenness. Fowlers End is a fictional section of London so far gone in vice, filth and despair that its inhabitants seem bent on denying that they are human. Hogarth would have shuddered at the thought of setting foot there. Nevertheless the book is a comedy, its gruesome humor capable of starting up belly laughs that guiltily stop in the throat...
...object to either of these enterprises, but we were a bit horrified at how the whole thing came off. None of the august personages (except perhaps Truman) seemed very easy about throwing bottles at the President-umpire. Perhaps it was merely that the Democrats had lost their sense of humor since the election. Perhaps Eisenhower's stolid solidity is just not open to attacks of garrulity. But to us the proceedings expressed the utter hopelessness and isolation of the idealistic icing of the Party...
...Amis and the rest of his school part company, it will be because he is its only conscientious craftsman and its only notable wit. Even so, his humor travels no better than the average joke in Punch, and U.S. editions of Lucky Jim and a second novel. That Uncertain Feeling, have barely topped the 5,000 mark in sales. His fellow writers would probably fare even worse, for they write with a sloppy, cliche-ridden arrogance that has been absent from serious U.S. fiction since the heyday of James T. Farrell and the cult of social protest...
...lifelessness of the publication reveals the absence of a sense of humor. But this is a kind of Grace and cannot be demanded. One might reasonably have expected, however, a concern with the life of ideas which exists (hopefully) behind the movement of academic politics. Instead he is given a summary of the CRIMSON's front page and probably of a few meetings with Deans. It makes one wonder whether anything did transpire in the University besides the endless talk about expansion, besides the reports on the growth of religion (treating it like some kind of stock quotation), besides clanking...