... American humor usually Arises from an ironic perception of the difference between Appearance and reality, and It generally arouses laughter only in colored people. Only colored i Americans can -For what other Americans would find ...
... American humor, with 'Vvn-iinK American humur. wilh. nothing-sacred air and its capacity to hurt and heal, enables us to sec ourselves in that moment of surprise and illumination called laughter. Here's a proposition: understand what ...
... American humor the speaker gave exaggeration as the chief . mark which distingu uishes is the humor of the new from that of o the old world. Boldness and audaci y stamp the American joke and Benjamin. Franklin is said to have laid the ...
... his awful responsibility through his sense of humor, never dimmed in the darkest hour. The inexhaustible capacity of American humor foretells, to my mind, our f uturs destiny. Jnaius HBSKI B&OWHB. ADVANTAGES A>D ITS VANTAGES. '
... American humor," he seid. "Tlie English humor ful character and used. THE ELEPHAKT WAS NOT TEELU.-G "VTELlu. \FV \FV ,.<. of to-day is of a restmo stJy as & means of. rnlaxation. In tho davs of Thackerav and DickonsEaplishnien seemed to en ...
... American humor is not humor In general, modified by the local coloring that one would expect from the institutions and surroundings of the American people, but its range is so narrow that a man may nave a keen sense of American humor ...
... American Humor," he observed in the forward: ". . . in the 20th Century every strain of American humor has had its flavor diluted by the mass media. The end product is. of course, television wherein the jokes of the Nepro, the Jew, the ...
... American humor gets very short shrift In most collections used In American literature courses. Partly to correct this, Enid Veron has assembled in "Humor in America" a lively cluster of short comic pieces ranging from Ben Franklin to ...
... American, humor in conversation in social zstCennfa winch differs entirely from tie Qumor ono meets wittt in tne l'!ct World. The curren- jjood thinzs at a London dinner are largeiy tne shartx saying of successful repartees in ...
... American Humor," he observed in the foreword: ". . . In the 20th century every strain of American humor has had its flavor diluted by the mass media. The end product is, of course, television wherein the jokes of the Negro, the Jew, the ...