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333 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
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"A Delta book." |
| Contents |
Take the Witness! -- How to Get Things Done -- The Social Life of the Newt -- Football Rules of Whatever They Are -- The Tortures of Week-End Visiting -- From Nine to Five -- Shakespeare Explained -- Christmas Afternoon -- Family Life in America -- Do Insects Think? -- The Stranger Within Our Gates -- Opera Synopses -- Malignant Mirrors -- How to Understand International Finance -- Kiddie-Kar Travel -- Uncle Edith's Ghost Story -- French for Americans -- Is This the Missing Link? -- The Mystery of the Poisoned Kipper -- Ask That Man -- Editha's Christmas Burglar -- What Does It Mean? -- A Talk To Young Men -- Paul Revere's Ride -- Throwing Back the European Offensive -- More Songs for Meller -- Compiling an American Tragedy -- Inter-Office Memo -- Fascinating Crimes -- Back to the Game -- The Typical New Yorker -- Carnival Week in Sunny Las Los -- Another Uncle Edith Christmas Story -- If These Old Walls Could Talk! -- Happy Childhood Tales -- The Sunday Menace -- Can We Believe Our Eyes? -- The King's English: Not Murder but Suicide -- One Minute, Please! -- Looking Shakespeare Over -- How I Create -- First -- Catch Your Criminal -- The Noon Telephone Operator -- Fall In! -- Could You Tell Me...? -- The Wreck of the Sunday Paper -- What -- No Budapest? -- Mind's Eye Trouble -- How to Understand Music |
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The Real Public Enemies -- Matinees -- Wednesdays and Saturdays -- The Chinese Situation -- Saturday's Smells -- Route Nationale -- Naming Our Flowers -- Johnny-on-the-Spot -- Down with Pigeons -- Contributor to This Issue -- No Pullmans, Please! -- Mysteries from the Sky -- Isn't It Remarkable? -- Do Dreams Go by Opposites? -- News from Home -- The Children's Hour -- Back to Mozart -- Spy Scares -- Artist's Model Succumbs! -- Ladies Wild -- Cocktail Hour -- Why We Laugh -- or Do We? -- Weather Records -- Home Made Jokes -- Men of Harlech! -- Summer Shirtings -- Word Torture -- I Know of It -- The Card -- How Long Can You Live? -- My Face -- Easy Tests -- Encore -- Hey, Waiter! -- Sporting Life in America -- Why I Am Pale -- Whoa! -- The Menace of Buttered Toast -- Do I Hear Twenty Thousand? |
| Summary |
"Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like "Life," "Vanity Fair," and "The New Yorker," earned him a reputation as one of the sharpest humorists of his time; his influence--on contemporaries such as E.B. White, James Thurber, and S.J. Perelman, or followers like Woody Allen, Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor--has left an indelible mark on the American comic tradition. "The Benchley Roundup "collects those pieces, selected by Benchley's son Nathaniel, "which seem to stand up best over the years"--A compendium of the most endearing and enduring work from one of America's funniest and most penetrating wits."It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous."--Robert Benchley. |
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American wit and humor.
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American wit and humor. (OCoLC)fst00807457
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Benchley, Nathaniel, 1915-1981.
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Williams, Gluyas, 1888-1982.
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