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...that world of information, however, is a reflection of his culture. To wit, a farmer sees a different meadow than a city the large human questions at stake than can a different notion of "culture" than a bacteriologist or intellectual historian...
...than a decade. But like the clown with the yen to play Hamlet, Simon has had the urge, and been critically urged, to try his hand at more serious drama. The result is The Gingerbread Lady, a schizoid play in which the dramatist is so busy applying plasters of wit to woefully bruised psyches that the evening is doubly robbed, both of honest hurt and buoyant humor...
Later, he said, "walking down the lonely streets of Washington, I felt more awe than anything else. I had viewed the struggle between President and press−the huge behind-the-scenes machine that tells the people who their President is. It is a game of psychological wit and personal charm, with stakes as high as they...
...Webster Schott, a vice president of Hallmark (and a critic of some repute), "verse is still more popular than prose, by a margin of five to one. And human affection will outsell humor twenty to one." Still, it is humor that freshens the stale feast of Christmas messages. The wit, alas, is often insipid self-parody−I BRING YOU GREETINGS . . . THAT'S ALL, JUST GREETINGS. But when they are good, the funny cards exemplify the peculiarly American gift for one-line gags. "LEON! LEON!" sings a caroler, who hurriedly explains, "I MEAN NOEL! NOEL! (Sorry, my music...
...earning well over $100,000 a year and had been syndicated by McNaught and King Features. In 1948 he won a Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon called Peace Today, warning of the perils of atomic weapons. But politics did not suit him, and though there were flashes of wit, he gave...