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...have never read an article that I agreed with more than your "The Age of Touchiness" [May 10]. The sensitivity of the '70s has hampered the sense of humor of many. It appears that laughter is limited to "Why did the chicken"-type jokes, and we can no longer laugh at ourselves. Perhaps we will soon have to concentrate on the ludicrous only in inanimate objects. I hope I haven't offended anyone-or anything...
...quintessential Nash appears in "One Man's Opiate," published late last year in The New Yorker. In it, he brings off an excruciating knock-knock joke in French-en route to his conclusion about the uses of laughter in the gloomy present: "In this age penumbral,/Let the timbrel resound in the tumbrel...
...wounding truths. Successful Sam is no longer struggling; he wants the arrivé's most inaccessible prize: a destination. His plaint, "I just want to do it all over again," is a caricatured truth on the verge of tragedy. But, as always, Simon pulls back when the laughter stops. His comic mask seems to hide not wisdom but embarrassment...
...Hermie and his sidekicks going to the movies-Bette Davis in Now, Voyager is on the screen-and trying to feel up two teenage imitations of Jean Harlow. In the next scene, as Hermie prepares to visit his war bride, he is rehearsing lines like "Laughter becomes you" to get him through his embarrassment. His efforts to ape affectedly "adult" cultural pretenses are in direct contrast to those of modern movie audiences, where more often it seems the adults mimic the young...
...radio the man said. 'And still the Heavyweight Champion of the World, Rocky Marciano.' I rode off in the rain that night on my bicycle... and I said, 'Just think the champion of the whole world. (Ali snapped his fingers) He can whip every man in Russia-(laughter and applause)-every man in China.... The champion of the whole world. And my purpose at 11-years-old was to win that world heavyweight title. And not only to win the world heavyweight title but to be a black champion who didn't go off and marry out of his race...