Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ramparts began publishing in Menlo Park, Calif., which was, as Hinckle puts it, "a ridiculous place to publish a magazine." So it moved to one of those topless streets in San Francisco's New Left Bohemia. The staffers fill the magazine with clever if sophomoric humor. Public figures distasteful to Ramparts are pictured as various beasts of prey. The latest, Columnist Max Lerner, is shown as a "Common Boar" who would rather be "fed than...
...five years as Punch's editor in the 1950s, Malcolm Muggeridge quickened the dowdy humor magazine with pungent political satire. Circulation shot up. But when Muggeridge proposed lampooning Prince Charles's boarding school, he went too far even for Punch and was forced to quit. Nothing daunted, hardly loath and all that, he went on to ridicule the whole monarchy in a savage piece in the Saturday Evening Post. For that breach of British etiquette, he was roundly denounced, ostracized by his friends - and even banned, for a while...
...extravagantly nutty-as when he remarks on infant care: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow." Inevitably, a few eggs are laid in the making of a comic omelet, but Flanders and Swann scramble their humor with such pixy princeliness that it becomes a royal banquet of mirth...
...must be political." Nicolson said no, and won, but recalls that Spender remarked, "I fear I cannot make an amusing speech. I have just been reading a book which says that all geniuses are devoid of humor...
When satire gets that close to reality, it loses much of its humor. Statistics were still piling up as the 1966 hunting season drew to a close last week, but it already seemed likely to be one of the bloodiest in history. Texas alone reported more than 75 shooting accidents and 24 fatalities; Michigan counted twelve dead, Maine five, Colorado five, Georgia four. "We've had people mistaken for everything from birds to porcupines," complained Michigan's conservation director, and a Texas wildlife official warned: "Sure, it's fun to get out in the woods...