Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...version of the form of humor that was prominent 30 years...
...Joxe has plump, ruddy cheeks, a large nose, silver hair and silver-rimmed spectacles; he looks, cracked French Novelist Jules Roy, "like a Roman consul, or maybe a cardinal." De Gaulle has praised him as "a model of conscience, the tomb of discretion," but he is also noted for humor and informality. In 1960, he was assigned to escort Nikita Khrushchev on his tour of France, became one of the few contenders to top Khrushchev in a proverb-spouting contest. The old adage (quoted by Dromio of Syracuse in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors) that stopped Nikita: "He must...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, treats the relationship of God and man with more humor than awe, but the superb acting of Fredric March and Douglas Campbell supplies the necessary power and the glory...
Working out his own definition, the cartoonist demanded that true humor must make a fresh observation about situations which really exist. American comedians have failed on both counts, having created a swarm of strereotyped, false figures without saying anything original about them. Now, the critical humorists of the late fifties he said (including himself) are also tempted to exploit the easy, tested laugh; "twenty years ago a comedian just had to say Brooklyn. Now it's Madison Avenue...
...think not. A man who wants to find humor in our world's imperfections had best allow himself a few paradoxes. Sunday's Feiffer potpourri was a thoughtful and superbly funny offering. If the author can be lured back to Sanders Theatre, an encore is in order...