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Constance Rourke

Constance Mayfield Rourke (November 14, 1885 – March 29, 1941) was an American author and educator. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Sorbonne and Vassar College. She taught at Vassar from 1910 to 1915. She died in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1941.

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There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. . . . It is a lawless element, full of surprises.

Character, Elements, Full, Humor, Related

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Deep, Emotional, Humorous, Men, Possess, Tucked

In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

Comedy, Differences, Inalienable, Life, Point, Tragic

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

Comic, Criticism, Social, Tradition

humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.

Fashion, Humor, Opposites, Bears, Relation, Like

Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Art, Civilization, Humor, Semblance, Type, Unity

Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

Humor, Men, Tools, Become, Comedy, Comic

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