From Spring 1979 Explore This Issue Prodding America’s Funnybone (on America’s Humor: From Poor Richard to Doonesbury by Walter Blair, Hamlin Hill) By Sanford Pinsker From the Spring 1979 Issue ← The Grandeur of Certain Utterances (on Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978 by Robert Penn Warren → Beckett: A Reluctant Sitter (on Samuel Beckett: A Biography by Deirdre Bair