Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...puberty. As a pathological and psychological document it is of some importance?it should certainly impress on anybody who reads it the importance of proper sex education for the young? but the average reader will find it extremely tedious?a tedium only occasionally relieved by passages of unconscious humor. "Excitement" in it is nil and it is difficult to imagine any one obtaining even a modicum of sensuous delight from its gray pages. The only other lesson it seems to teach is that life in the German family it describes must have been ineffably dull. A Young Girl's Diary...
...concludes true humor to be dead. Man's mind is drifting backward. Another age of slapstick is upon...
...Serious Scholar will recognize these accessories as relating to an earlier epoch. He will recall the ancient musical show when the comedian's ear, properly punched, burst into full cauliflower. He will, in short, remember the days when musical comedy humor depended essentially on the comedian's ability to fall on his face...
...Significance. In the first place the exciting and vivid recital, told with candor and humor, of a pilgrim in search of true wisdom, West and East-a recital punctuated with adventures as odd as any of Sinbad the Sailor's. In the second, an illuminating and informative exposition, both of the India that tourists never see, and the America of which many of our self-elected " leaders of thought" still deny the existence. Most interesting of all perhaps, the reactions of an Eastern mind to both Oriental and Occidental civilizations and ideals-set down without hasty intolerance or propagandizing...
...Benchley has long been known as the brightest contributor on the staff of Life. He is the author of a number of books of humor, of which Love Conquers All is the latest and best. He is a Harvard graduate, class...