... 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 based on the incongruities of extravagant exaggeration. The rapid growth and extraordinary prosperity of North America, learned professors tell us, are responsible for much humor of this type. Some of it goes back to the ...
... 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. In doing so, I hope we will arrive at a definition for American humor, but I'm not betting on it. At the end of the semester, we can stand up and say, "Mark Twain published Huck Finn in 1885, and it was damn funny (or ...
... American humor at the prestigious Kennedy Center in the nation's capital. Headlining the performance, attended by more than 2,000 people, were Tim Allen, Richard Belzer, Chevy Chase, Morgan Freeman, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Kris ...
... American humor consists in exaggeration, and English humor in understatement. Plenty of exceptions, of course; but the remark contains much truth. Furthermore, the Englishman does not see why anyone should "take liberties" with him ...
... American humor more range. What do other readers think ? Beginning in this issue the editor presents the first of a new series of Anglo- American "contrasts" under the title of "Anglo-Americana." * * * Looking over the articles ...
... American humor at the prestigious Kennedy Center in the nation's capital. Headlining the performance, attended by more than 2,000 people, were Tim Allen, Richard Belzer, Chevy Chase, Morgan Freeman, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Kris ...
... American humor form the subject of more than one of them. Those who cannot speak any foreign language will be comforted by his discussion of those who can. How to Read Booths and How to Write Boo\s are two of the best. What Struc\ Me ...
... American humor form the subject of more than one of them. Those who cannot speak any foreign language will be comforted by his discussion of those who can. How to Read Booths and How to Write Boo\s are two of the best. What Struc\ Me ...