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...haven't discovered that the comedy in most Jewish comedians [Oct. 2] is the result of "a defense mechanism to ward off the aggression and hostility of others." Nor are they "ambivalent about their Jewishness and compulsively turn to humor to ward off their private demons." The majority of them just happen to be very normal people who are gifted with wit and a natural sense of humor. They are marvelous storytellers...
Murphy kicked with a quarter mile left to successfully ward off a late challenge from Garland and Wilson, and the Harvard victory was secure...
...need a special license to show movies at midnight except when the shows run into early Sunday morning and become subject to 'blue laws,'" John J. Campbell, attorney for Brattle Theatre, said yesterday. "But we would rather apply for a license covering Friday and Saturday nights and ward off any problems with the licensing board...
Cleverness makes a good comic, a broad vision of the human condition a great one. Ward's uninspired tales demonstrate neither. The book does introduce a masterfully controlled, subdued, wistful writing style, particularly in the concluding vignette, "With My Grandparents at an Inn: August, 1970." Here Ward has crafted a poignant, affecting reminiscence of his grandfather marvelous in its insights and impressively written, a welcome departure in style and substance from the rest of the book. If anything could save this book and Ward's reputation, this does...
Fits and Starts gives us a writing style badly married to a puerile sense of humor. Ward should give up comedy and write more about his grandfather. Unless, of course, he laughs at all the jokes in The Comic Strip...