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Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou seemed born for that assignment. He was the son of country school teachers in the poor Auvergne town of Montboudif, a name, like his own, that used to evoke howls of laughter from school friends because of its sound. To "Pompon," as the French affectionately call him, it has proved no liability. Indeed, he can turn on the peasant touch at the whiff of a Gauloise, and uses it to great effectiveness campaigning. Pompidou blazed through his studies, graduating first in his class from the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in 1934. While his classmates...
...Black Laughter. Nor, they hasten to add, is it necessarily a superior one. Although educational psychologists have long insisted that Negro dialect shows all the characteristics of cultural deprivation, Stewart and his fellow investigators argue that linguistically it is as rich and diverse as standard spoken English. Many white Americans were astonished when Muhammed Ali, who earned reams of sports-page attention with his endless flow of doggerel, flunked an Army intelligence test. Psychologist Stephen Baratz, of the National Institute of Mental Health, insists that there was really nothing particularly surprising about his jab at poesy: Negro children usually start...
...ordinary people of Northern Ireland over such things as fishing and as paying the most ridiculous and exorbitant rents, although families have lived for generations on their land." She reported that she had been in Bogside the night of the battle and drew a delighted explosion of laughter when she wryly noted that "I organized the civilians in that area to make sure they wasted not one solitary stone in anger...
...FIRST Electric Flag album has a song that opens with Lyndon Johnson saying, "I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the ...." He is cut of by uproarious laughter, and then the twanging of hard rock guitars. The son is called "Killing Floor...
Kurt Vonnegut was mourning the follies of the world with laughter long before the term "black humorist" had been coined. In a series of fictional fables he confronted a remarkable range of topics: space, religion, creeping technology, how to love the unlovable, and even doomsday, which, as he gently observes, "could easily be next Wednesday." His first book, Player Piano (1952). told how a crew of smoothly programmed engineers take over America. Another, Cat's Cradle, began with a reporter trying to fix the whereabouts of important Americans at the time the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and ended...