Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps it's the heat. Or maybe the humidity. Whatever the cause, people everywhere are coming down with a highly contagious disease-the latest running gag. Right now it is the Thinnest Books, a joke started by Comedian Morey Amsterdam. Thin books are insults between covers, and thinking them up is as hard to resist as a second handful of peanuts. Samples...
...another sanitarium, of his bouts with drug addiction or liquor. From all this, Levant comes out as a man who might have been but just missed, who wallows in that unhappy fate by parading as an object of derision. The effect is painful, like a Levant joke: "Ralph Edwards had wanted me to be on his program This Is Your Life, but he couldn't find one friend...
...Candy barrel. Mamie Mason, Harlem hostess with the mostest, sets out to solve the Race Problem in her own forthright fashion by aiding and abetting two-tone cohabitation as widely and as often as possible among her vast collage of acquaintances. As a single, running, off-color joke, the novel turns out to be neither very funny nor very dirty. The level of its humor is set by Negro Author Chester Himes in a laboriously arch preface that explains that "pinktoes is a term of indulgent affection applied to white women by Negro men, and sometimes conversely by Negro women...
Free & Equal. If the setting is like a boys' prep school mess hall, the talk is still music. And even when participants joke about the master ("There is a man called Roody,/Who never seems too moody"), the remarkable gentleness and modesty of Rudolf Serkin inspires utmost respect and admiration. Said Israeli Cellist Raphael Sommer, who came from Paris just for Marlboro: "It is a great lesson in humility for me to study under such great men as Serkin and Casals. It is an incredible spiritual uplift-like a ray of sunshine from those above us. And to actually...
...latest joke craze is inventing names for imaginary discothèques. Thus, they dance the real Watusi at the Belgian Congo-Go, do the monkey at the Malay Archipelago-Go. There's a Santo Domingo-Go, a San Diego-Go, and a Pago Pago-Go. Paris's Left Bank has a new fruggery called the Vincent Van Gogh-Gogh (it's just across the street from the more famous Deux Magots-Go). Duke Ellington's new place is called the Mood Indigo-Go, and the squares out in Pasadena are in waltz time at the Long...