Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly the humor has turned black. Scandal involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, tainting both Army brass and noncoms, has shaken a Pentagon already under attack from every side. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is digging into corruption in Army noncommissioned officers' clubs in the U.S., Germany and Viet Nam. The key figures implicated have held two of the Army's most respected positions. One is Sergeant Major William O. Wooldridge, 46, once the top enlisted man in the Army. He has been accused of running a "Little Mafia" of senior sergeants that systematically bilked service clubs...
...jolting contrast between violence and comedy, as in Bonnie and Clyde, we have an annoying contrast between soap opera and farce. Violence may be akin to farce, but too much violence is confusing. The glorification of the outlaw's life, only partly tongue-in-check, also weakens the humor. The film subtly encourages the puerile anti-hero-worship it meant to spoof...
...this time, the attempts at humor have become forced. The gringos maraud their way through Bolivia just for laughs, but we are already hoping for a cease-fire and unilateral withdrawal. The difficulties of robbing a bank in a foreign language provide the only light touches that do not seem strained...
...young, tough and dedicated member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, he is, at 36, a former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians and an aspirant lawyer. He is also a wittily perceptive writer, as he shows best in a provocative chapter devoted to "Indian Humor...
...Shall Overrun." There are other contemporary jokes, like the one about a poll which disclosed that while only 15% of the Indians wanted U.S. forces to get out of Viet Nam, 85% wanted U.S. forces to get out of America. The source of Indian humor, Deloria makes clear, is a kind of desperation that makes for grim laughter: "If they bring that War on Poverty to our reservation, they'll know they've been in a fight...