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This dignified poetry avoids personal topicsand instead speaks to the "you" and the "we," asif the poet effaced himself in order to write foreveryone, a symptom of Herbert's interest inpolitics. Yet it does possess a strong strain ofhumor, even if it's found mainly on the backsidesof more depressing themes. In "What Our Dead Do,"Herbert hazards that the dead "hunt for jobs /whisper the numbers of lottery tickets," thensomberly notes that we imagine them "snug as theburrow of a mouse." Surely that comparison makesthe daily grind of errands and ambition seem likedeath. In one of his most priceless...
...half of those polled are impressed byProfessor John M. Doyle's expertise, and aslightly smaller number appreciate his sense ofhumor," the CUE Guide reads...
Williamson praised Simpson for his sense ofhumor and ability to make people comfortable...
...very incisive and at the same timehe can be very wise about life," says Steinberg."And, of course, the bridge is his sense ofhumor...because it's ironic and it kind ofdistances himself from the subject...[this kindof] warm irony is one which one associates withJewish piety, the piety of the rabbis...
...whether their jokes fall on deaf ears ornot, one thing's for sure. The Einsteins andFrankensteins of scientific institutions willcontinue to preserve their unique traditions ofhumor...