Word: humors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some time in our shadowy national past, before really big bombs, a culture existed carefree as birds, blithesome as Puck, bawdy as only early twentieth-century Americans can be. Yes, back in the days when no one in the country seemed over seventeen years old, when nothing mattered but humor. And, of course, gadget-makers that we are, we manufactured it. Yes, the days of the Joke Generation...
...Johnson and Smith Catalogue supplied the humor for a nation, for decades. In its crumbling pages (carefully preserved in the famous 'X' cage of famous Widener library) is enough material for a hundred Soc. Rel theses...
...evident by these excerpts, Etc. did not make a feminist attempt to rival any Harvard publications, although as a humor magazine it could be classified with the Lampoon. Nor did it set itself up to "represent Radcliffe" or to "mirror student opinion." In short, it lacked the self-consciousness found in other publications of the College and thus unlike its predecessors did not immediately evoke ridicule...
...this goes on in China. That fact doesn't seem very significant because Brecht seems to write with a dark Germanic humor and the English version which the Harvard Dramatic Club chose is by Eric Bentley, who never uses a foreign word when an American one will do. The colloquiality (?) of the piece is one of its charms...
...little darlings snarls. "He's got the law on his side." Another muses with a sinister smirk: "He ain't gonna like it." And so the story swiftly develops into yet another clumsy, commercial switch on what is probably the most popular comedy situation in contemporary U.S. humor: the problems of bringing up father...