... American Humor: A Study of the National Character, Constance Rouke (Anchor, 95 cents). A searching analysis, and a minor classic of literary history. The Comic Tradition in America: An Anthology of American Humor, edited by Kenneth S ...
... American humor lies with people like you, noncomedians who can use a squirt of laughter to lubricate their business and professional lives, especially when they appear before audiences. To give all the help he can, Orben has worked to ...
... American humor; alas, the supply of real grassroots tall stories is always far behind the demand, and it folded for lack of material. But Joel's story "Grandma and the Buck Deer" in the June 1969 issue and other Vance pieces are in the ...
... American humor has been compared to the explosion of a firecracker; the Chinese type is more like a thin wraith of cigarette smoke. It is in the quiet tempo of the East, and through it there always runs a subtle feeling for politeness ...
... American humor can only be measured by what the general public accepts. The wit of Dick Gregory and the late Godfrey Cambridge were tragic losses in terms of what might have evolved. The element of intellectual satire is lost in the ...
... American Humor Editor, The Rotariax : Although a stranger, as a Rotarian and a reader of your Rotarian, I want to congratulate you on the improvement in the magazine since you have taken charge and particularly for your articles on ...
... American humor in the '90s. 8. Documentary Life of Nathan Hale, by George Dudley Seymour. I wish every American would read this book. The documents are thrilling, and the author has complete mastery of his subject. 9. William Allen ...
... American humor magazine goes to court and puts Nomad magazine out of business. PROVIDENCE, RJ* 2OO9 - Genetic engineers at Multimeion create watermelons that contain different kinds of liquids. Among them are milkmelons, teamelons and ...
... American humor. Such classics as Biltmore Oswpdd by J. Thome Smith and Dere Mable by E. Streeter, along with thousands of camp cartoons and camp jokes, spread the pitiable tale of the soldier- boy rookie across the country. Last week ...
... American Humor, edited by E. B. White and K. S. White. 369 pp. Pocket Books (Cardinal). Abridged. 35c. Truly a collection of some of the best humor — essays, stories and poems — written in this country. Most of the work is by ...