Word: leacockism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University will be represented by President Lowell, Dean Briggs, and Professors Kirsopp Lake and R. B. Merriman '06. The list of honorary members from outside the University who will be here includes James Montagomery Flagg and Oliver Herford. Stephen Leacock telegraphed yesterday his inability to come, though he had hoped to be here...
Taking a hint from the second of these principles, it is perhaps advisable to go directly to the poetry itself. The thing does look easy, delightfully easy. And then one remembers Stephen Leacock's account of his contribution to "Punch"; how he collected some beautiful phrases from the morning's news, Dog Man of Darfur, Sultan of Kowfat, and so on, and had a poetic masterpiece envisioned,--until he sat down to find rhymes for the phrases! After all it is enough, without adding further to the preponderance of prose over poetry, to say that the Poems are admirably selected...
...Significance. Mr. Leacock is a humorist but not a wit?he seeks for and obtains the abrupt and hearty laugh rather than the oh-so-sophisticated smile. But while occasionally stereotyped and sometimes a trifle repetitious he maintains on the whole a pretty high average of chuckles to the item. He is probably the most popular living humorous writer in English, for his work deals in the main with matters of commonplace experience made unexpectedly ludicrous by the angle from which he attacks them...
...York Tribune: "Mr. Leacock has never deviated . . . from his attitude as the unimpassioned protestant against the countless shams and imbecilities in which our common life is drenched...
...York Times: "Leacock is unconventional enough to voice opinions that almost everyone else keeps silent for fear of what the other fellow may think...