Word: humors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of these analogies are so much more obvious than brilliant that they will disappoint readers accustomed to the fire works of other Haldane writings. Whether or not a conversion to Marxism involves paralysis of the sense of humor, the au thor apparently decided that he could make the best impression with this book by assuming an air of grave reasonable ness. Despite this effort, many readers will find it less a proof of the scientific validity of Marxism than a collection of opinions on science and Marxism by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane...
...appeal was not to men's minds but to those infantile emotions which he never conquered in himself: arrogance, hatred, frustration, fear. But while Hearst dragged his readers vicariously through every depravity from jingoism to sex murder, he also helped to perpetuate a nation's songs, its humor and its heroes...
...turn-table on the recorder was varying so badly when the record was made that it changes key about every thirty seconds ... Listen to the first chorus of Art Shaw's "Rose Room." The rest is not so good. Casa Loma turns loose a rather weird sense of humor, recording "The Old Oaken Bucket" under the title of "Hoboken Bucket" ... Funny thing that Benny Goodman's best records in the last year have been note for note copies of someone else. First, "One O'Clock Jump" (Basie), then "Wrappin' It Up (Fletcher Henderson), "Topsie" (Basie), and now "Sent...
That mutual appreciation of national humor is an essential to good international relations, Mr. Maurois held, was fully borne out by the improved understanding of England and France in the past twenty years. "Good humorous criticisms of the foibles of other nations are an excellent way of building international good will," he went on. "For instance the acceptance by the English of my humorous sketch on the English army after the war shows how much more one book can do than hours of diplomatic bickering. There is a crying need now for a sympathetic book by an American on France...
...Maurois asserted, makes a serious European war an impossibility in the next twenty years, and the more closely the ties between these three nations are drawn, the more remote the possibility of war will become. Nothing will be more effective in strengthening them than an understanding of the essential humor of each nation...