Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unabashed tribute to Hitchcock), but they remain always in context. Many of the characters in Stolen Kisses and much of the action may be embellished, but it is all based and modeled on Truffaut's life. His is, therefore, personal cinema of the best kind, memory shaped by humor and artistry into warm and joyous experience...
There are two heckling debates each term as part of the course work for English N, Irving J. Rein, lecturer in Public Speaking, said. He added that the debates give students a chance to respond to a live audience outside the classroom, "The emphasis is on humor--this is not a study thing," he added...
VIAN maintains a kind of baroque humor throughout, but puns and word games (unfortunately badly translated) shade into black humor which at the novel's end becomes a Kafkaesque surrealism that we find frightening rather than funny. Sartre, who was a real-life friend of Vian's, is amusingly satirized as Jean-Sol Partre, the cult idol who enters packed lecture halls on elephant back, crushing his waiting fans. But when Chick, Colin's friend, sacrifices everything, including his girl-friend Alise, in order to buy Partre's work, the joke turns grisly. Chloe dies from a water-lily growing...
...Recently, however, an enthusiastic Vian cult has been growing among French students, and the critics have begun to speak of L'Ecume des Jours, L'Automne à Pékin, and the play The Empire Builders, with increasing respect, giving Vian a place in the tradition of Dadaist humor, the Theater of the Absurd, and modern French poetry...
...course, there might have been some sick humor in this book, if Adler had not scrupulously avoided all of Nixon's Red-baiting witticisms from Joe McCarthy days, or his pre-assassination remarks on he Kennedys (Jack and Bobby). On the other hand, Alder evidently decided that Adlai Stevenson (who died of natural causes) was acceptable comic terrain for the book, so among Nixon's Wit and Humor is the gem, "Stevenson is a pathetic Hamlet strolling across the political stage. To be or not to be--that is the question of him. And I assure...