Word: humorousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DePinto is known for a keen eye and the sense of humor of a determined pixie. Dunster men remember her appearing before them in the dinner line and solemnly slipping some silverware into their hands for the dates they had for gotten to provide for. On one occasion she overheard some House residents complain about the difficulties of watching the pretty girls in the line on weekend nights and returned to present them with a mirror...
...apartment for over 35 years poured a flood of poems, short stories, columns, novels (Simple Speaks His Mind) and Broadway plays (1935's Mulatto), and the lyrics for a musical (1946's Street Scene), and in them all his messages came across with gentle irony and compassionate humor instead of the expectable rage and bitterness. To those angry younger men who put him down for a lack of "responsibility," Hughes replied: "Humor is a weapon, too, of no mean value against one's foes...
...Pistoletto can find galleries in Manhattan nowadays is largely because Oldenburg's monster hamburgers and soft vinyl Dormeyer mixers made comic contemporary art acceptable, indeed sometimes all but inescapable. "Jokes," says Oldenburg, with all the Nordic intensity of a Bergman, "are one way to reach people. Perhaps humor is the only useful tool in a dissolving world...
James Purdy has achieved a considerable literary reputation for his precisely chiseled prose style and gallows humor (Malcolm, The Nephew, 63: Dream Palace). His talent does not flag here, despite his choice of subject. But Eustace Chisholm is not unlike certain surrealistic paintings in its rather surprising lack of effect: though an atmosphere is evoked in sharp and crystalline terms and though figures are intensely and skillfully rendered, the reader remains unmoved. Fortunately, most men do not live in a neo-Gothic neverland where the entire range of human experience is dominated by a single obsession. Life is at once...
...failing Catskill resort, it presents in elaborate and fascinating detail a complex situation between two friends, one of whom has come to tell the other that he "had stolen his forever-possible girl." Doran lets the story tell itself, relying almost entirely on dialogue which captures the private humor of a close friendship and gives remarkably clear sketches of both individuals...