Word: puns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist Howe's satire is not the final criticism of higher learning in the U.S., but it has its sting. Harvardmen will recognize the traits and the chatter. The Master of "Bromfield House," who enters on a card each new pun he divines in Finnegans Wake; the English department poet whose looks at least were once Keatsian; the Fogg Art Museum curator and his inseparable friends, young men of debonair malice; the publicity-seeking psychologist from the Midwest and his wife, resolutely unrepressed; and Dorothea's husband, John Calcott, a gentleman. Calcott, always well under control, stuns Dorothea...
...nickname "Crime," by the way, apparently originated with a little pun with which the Advocate used to amuse itself. "Crime's Own" was supposed to sound like "Crime-on." Anyway, Crimeds adopted the tag, and have used it as a heading for newshreaks garnished with appropriate ed notes...
Awkward Mantle. The Man of the Year personified the problem of the year. His very name had almost the force of a pun. Like most of mankind, he was ill prepared for the destiny and responsibility which had been thrust upon him. He did not want the responsibility; the destiny rested awkwardly on his shoulders...
...Importance of Being Earnest," presented last night by the Radcliffe Idler, is Oscar Wilde at his witty and fantastic best. Based on a trivial pun, the play is, nevertheless, almost perfection of its kind. The present production, sympathetically directed by Mrs. Mark de Wolfe Howe, shows that for all its fifty years, it is still excellent entertainment...
Double Take. Alike in talent, they are poles apart in temperament. Prankish, pun-loving Grouse is easygoing, Lindsay something of a hypochondriac. Warns Grouse: "Don't ever ask Howard how he feels, because he'll tell you." Lindsay likes a drink; Grouse swore off "in the middle of a beer" nearly 30 years ago. Lindsay loves the country; Grouse loathes it. Lindsay is as nattily dressed as a floorwalker, Grouse as rumpled as an insomniac's bed. Lindsay is too scared of first nights to go, Grouse too curious to stay away...