Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Panelist Kenneth S. Lynn '45, associate professor of English, suggested that much of Feiffer's humor is the satire is "a sidewalk Freudianism which down through the suburbs." Feiffer responded that he does not ridicule the mentally sick but only people "who use analysis not as a cure but as an extension of their neurosis...
...course, Perelman is not quite like the others. His humor is subtler, his vocabulary larger, his style more sophisticated; and the weird world he inhabits is a creation all his own. But he is like Benchley and Thurber in that he is funny. Perelman is quite probably the funniest man around...
...latest book, The Rising Gorge, Perelman's humor seems broader than in the past. He indulges frequently in the kind of wisecrack that makes the reader laugh out loud, instead of trying to evoke only nods and smiles. "And look at me today. How old a man would you say I was?" a health faddist asks Perelman...
...servant, and the pay is so small she can do better on relief." Throughout The Rising Gorge, Perelman allows himself this sort of knee-slapper somewhat more often than, as I remember, he did in his earlier pieces, and the result is an even more enjoyable brand of humor...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, treats the relationship of God and man with more humor than awe, but the acting of Fredric March and Douglas Campbell supplies the necessary power and glory...