Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that no one can do the show except Paar. "There are many things the show requires-about six things, " Bishop says. "The guest-hosts have had at most three or four. Paar had all of them." The six are, he said: curiosity, naive honesty, sense of tempo, sense of humor, pacing, and a feeling of uncertainty. "Paar superseded any of his guests," says Bishop, "whereas the rest of us depend on who the guests...
...more lucrative) markets of women's magazines and rock and roll records. With these new imperialistic ventures, their weekly dinners, their memories of a Golden Age, and their ingenious persecutions of the well-bred young men who compete for editorial positions, Lampoon editors maintain a state of good humor beyond the wildest imaginings of their Harvard readership (if it still exists). Yes, the Lampoon has a funny building, but there still remains a need for a Harvard humor magazine...
...this is only a first try, and one hopes for better ones to come. The Gargoyle at least has the good intention of writing Harvard humor and wisely opens its pages to everyone interested in writing for them. If it manages to entertain the Harvard community without being too narrowly topical, it will be a happy addition to the growing number of undergraduate publications...
...Parisian named Martin who believes that "everything can be explained." With Martin, who has just been released after serving a prison term, Ayme takes a dreamlike but invigorating stroll through the contrarieties of Western society. He views men and women as obsessed by mutually contradictory impulses, and his mordant humor is best expressed by standing acceptable ideas on their heads. When one character painstakingly discovers irrefutable evidence that there is a God, he is persuaded to destroy it on being reminded that, for believers, "an absolute, demonstrated certainty tends to dispel faith and hope...
...Hopelessly addicted to modern harmonies" is the only way to describe Dartmouth's Injunaires. They, like Yale, make a few miserable attempts at humor, but at least Dartmouth's is crude. They do a satisfactory version of "Mood Indigo," however...