Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cute rather than craftsmanlike, Playwright Kopit lobs up pseudo profundities that he avoided in his fanciful Oh Dad, Poor Dad romp. The dramatic penury of the current play may be suggested by the fact that it relies for its climax on an offstage sound effect of prepubescent outhouse humor...
Privately, Miller rides a Honda, drives a Lincoln Continental, and bites his nails; publicly, he comes on like an abashed pixie. And the lulled listener may miss the humor in a sound like "good ain't fer ever and bad ain't fer good." Playing tricks with words is his lyrical delight: "The moon is high and so am I / The stars are out, and so will I be-pretty soon. / But come the dawn and it will dawn on me you're gone." That sounds like pretty fluid stuff, particularly the way his pronounced but easily...
Bars & Stripes. His humor spills over into his conversation too. "My parents were so poor I was made in Japan," he reveals with an easygoing delivery that takes the slickness off it. His college education he describes as "Korea, Clash of '52." After that it was bell-hopping in Nashville, the country music capital, for a dime a week and tips. He had been writing and singing songs since Korea, "though I don't know a bar from a stripe; I just sing through my nose...
These disturbing fables might have as their epigraph the theme of Goya's nightmarish etching cycle, the Caprichos: "The sleep of reason produces monsters." With merciless humor, Goya gave the forms of grotesque man-beasts to 18th century hypocrisies. Jakov Lind, writing cheerily of cannibals and cripples in Nazi Germany, imprisons the reader in sweaty dreams of guilt. The guilt is not merely German. Lind's force lies in his ability to suggest that the sleep of reason in this century produced not only monsters but a monstrous complicity-a pact signed and mutually witnessed by murderers, accessories...
...estimate first appeared in a Times news story last month and reappeared in a humor column and a summary of the week's events in education...