Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectual prestige which Horace Bushnell had lent to the Hartford ministry a generation before, Twichell sought the approval of his congregation through demonstrations of manliness, not of mind. He was a forceful speaker and an exuberant athlete, and whenever the males in his flock got together for smoking-room humor, Joe Twichell's hearty laugh rang loud and clear. Asylum Hill loved him, especially Mark Twain, who was Twichell's best friend for forty years...
...Unfunny humor has been the normal state of affairs in this country for quite a while now. The glib and easy market researched laugh. 20 years ago the laughs came when the comic said Brooklyn. Today it comes when he says Madison Ave. The joke remains the same. It's just moved a little uptown...
What follows is taken from a speech Mr. Feiffer delivered at Sanders Theatre on February 25. The cartoonist's comments on American humor helped round out a Poet's Theatre production based on his strips and his one-act play, Crawling Arnold. That show is being repeated tonight (8:30) and tomorrow (7:00 and 9:30) at the Loeb Drama Center...
SOME of our colleges are now giving courses in what is and what is not funny. I spoke to an English class some weeks ago on the subject. They took lots of notes and never smiled. I can't think of anything more likely to put humor back in its place than a really good academic study...
...years we've been taking the same old humor out of the same old bag. We've been polishing it with up to date references; we've been using it, laughing at it and seeing our society as a reflection of it. Through humor we create a stereotype, forget after a while that the stereotype is only a stereotype and begin to take it for the real thing. So all minority groups become in the eyes of the majority the exact image the jokesters turned them into: good natured, easy going Rastus and Mandy, shrewd money loving Ikie and Abie...