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The 1930s — a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said any other way.

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Carmichael was, like many Americans, a divided soul, part nomad and part homebody, who seemed a little bit at home everywhere, but was probably more so someplace else, if he could just find it.

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In modern American style, his job, not his past, defined him.

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Wilfrid Sheed

Wilfrid Sheed

Born: December 27, 1930
Died: January 19, 2011 (aged 80)
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