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...early comics predates Pop. Of late, he has developed bright geometric patterns as an effective foil for his figures. Neither as disturbing as the Surrealists nor as incisive as some Pop artists, he yet fills a niche in which form and humor are as indispensable to each other as wit and word in a limerick. "I see painting as poetry," he says. "Humor, after all is the reminder that we are mortal...
...witty tape recorder and invents caricatures just as effortlessly: a marvelously dirty-minded Jewish grandmother; a gentle, handsome racketeer who wants only to be liked. At his best Rose writes with sonorous richness that manages to suggest a blend of Nabokov and Edwin Arlington Robinson. One can hope that wit, style and moral imagination will save him from the truant temptations of fluency...
...Hope, LL.D., comedian. A master whose wit and satire serve to whittle down pomposity, modify the foibles of our times and help to restrain their perpetrators from self-hypnosis...
WILLIAMS COLLEGE Ralph Ellison, LL.D., author. John V. Lindsay, LL.D., mayor of New York City. In facing the relentless problems and incredible demands bearing upon the mayors of our great cities, you have found the sensitivity to understand, the wit and the resilience to survive...
...Buchwald, L.H.D., humorist. In our time of turgid seriousness, ponderous wit, and frantic promotion, you have