Word: potterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the top are Clare Potter, whose sleek, ladylike clothes are done in dramatic colors, priced a notch above McCardell's; Tom Brigance, an exponent of fit and form, who "constructs" clothes with a feminine look for the small, rounded figure; Vera Maxwell, whose simple clothes have an English flavor; Tina Leser, who designs exotic play clothes, using foreign and art themes; Sydney Wragge, who uses color-coordinated silks, linens and tweeds, attains a classic, custom-made look in his sportswear; and Carolyn Schnurer, who does gay, colorful collections sometimes inspired by foreign travels...
Steve Gottlieb bowed to Price Potter at five, 6-3, 6-2, while Dan Mayers extended Gee to three sets before losing in the number six match...
...Britain's top satirists, Stephen Potter, 55, in his puckish tomes on Lifemanship and Gamesmanship, has extolled the advantages of "oneupmanship" , (i.e., the use of the ploy, and the art of getting away with it). As one of Britain's top experts on courtship, Marriage Bureaucrat Heather Jenner, 39, in a recent bestseller called Marriage Is My Business, claims to have arranged some 5,000 successful matings. As a result of indoctrinating her clients with some mystical principles of reciprocal oneupmanship, only three of those matches, testifies Heather, have ended in divorce. Last week, however, a gentleman farmer...
...Potter's plan is simply to divide all English humor into nine categories, with samples, and prefix one long introduction and nine shorter ones. Perhaps there is some virtue in classifying humor in this manner, as much, anyway, as there is in making nine arbitrary divisions of, say, literature since Homer. But it seems to me that the field is much too broad and amorphous to be handled in a book of under three hundred pages, or in any book at all, for that matter. Potter himself must realize this, when he says of humor: "Perhaps its history...
Sense of Humor contains humorous writing, but very title of it is Potter's; it also contains some interesting ideas on the evolution of the British sense of humor. The format, however, is ridiculously ambitious. One finds oneself hoping that the conceptural scheme of the work is a literary practical joke, or "lifemanship" in practice by the master. Whether it is or not, Sense of Humor proves that humor, like children, is best seen and not heard about...