Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while a real, live critic with a political resilience is to be celebrated as such, his success rests on the funny universality of his hip urban characters. Surely they seem a trifle more familiar if you come from New York City, but no-one can miss the essence of humor and truth in Bernard's monologue...
...began," Feiffer explains, "as frustrated writers." In the early fifties his material was being rejected as universally as it is now sought. Similarly, Nichols and May found their only outlet for critical humor in Chicago's Second City Theatre, and Sahl attracted attention at the Hungry i. "The mass circulation magazines of that period were too rich or satisfied or afraid to start fooling around with strong, radical satire. They turned us down, and so we found other places where we could really swing...
...carriages and coaches capsized or collided, his ships careened drunkenly, his proud hunters tumbled ignominiously from their horses. At times, the humor is rather on the banana-peel level; but for the most part, it has a rare gentleness...
Jokes in Crisis. The two men became stanch allies and farm friends, although Stanton never could abide Lincoln's habit of cracking jokes in time of crisis. "God damn it to hell," Stanton stormed after one round of presidential humor, "was there ever such nonsense?" Stanton once told a petitioner that the President was a damned fool. When the petitioner repeated the remark to the President, Lincoln professed astonishment: "Did Stanton call me a damn fool? Well, I guess I had better step over and see Stanton about this. Stanton is usually right...
...much else on the program casts doubt on the seriousness of newer innovating composers. If they wish to be really listened to and considered musicians and not curios, they must eliminate from programs the laughable and eccentric works which confuse the evening's purpose. The music has fallen between humor and seriousness, and the composers have not yet convinced the audience that their interest is in either...