Word: puns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your haw-haw-lier-than-thou reviewer's damning with faint puns Peter De Vries' Through the. Fields of Clover: for such a pun-stirrer to grind up De Vries' meaty message with half-witticisms of his own seems in wurst possible taste-particularly in such a notorious quip-joint as TIME...
...Hammer of the Mountain, by Firman Houghton is subtitled "A Grave Comedy in Three Acts." The feeble pun on "grave" is the only display of wit in Mr. Houghton's thick, pretentious, muddled and terribly fashionable play. The first act, thanks largely to Stephen Aaron's direction, had promise. The setting was an old abandoned farmhouse used simultaneously as a secret meeting place for a pair of lovers and the headquarters for mock army maneuvers, and the dialogue, some of it funny, is about what is real (the war games) and what is not (Isabel, the girl, waiting for Charlie...
...where he majored in French and Italian literature. He knew all the current show tunes by heart, and walking down Mount Auburn Street one night, he burst out: "I want to write songs!" He worked on the Hasty Pudding Club musicals of 1938 and '39, filled them with promising, pun-filled lyrics, put in two summers at Manhattan's Juilliard School to learn more about music...
...well as a bestseller about a clerical Organization Man called The Cardinal, knows that his costume throbbers are nonsense. Unlike Taylor Caldwell, for instance, who writes the same sort of novel with more earnestness and less skill, he stops every few chapters and snickers at himself with a pun or a Dos Passosian aside. And if the reader celebrates each such instance by pouring himself three fingers of pot still whisky, he will reach page 621 handily...
...According to one historian, Luis Ulloa, Columbus was a Catalan from the province of Gerona. Dali therefore has evidence that his theory is more than an inspired pun on Genoa, the accepted birthplace of Columbus...