When I Compare Herr Ibben's Three Constituents Of German...
with my own memories of German gaiety, I find that he has illumined for me an area of perplexity. How often (walking back under the small trees of the Tiergarten) have I......
Marginal Comment
By HAROLD NICOLSON I WAS reading recently in Die Zeitung (that intelligent news- paper which is published in London) an article by Hans Karl Ibben entitled "Have the Germans a......
Herr Ibben Is Not Wholly Clear In His Mind Regarding
the differ- ence between a sense of humour and the capacity for wit, ins- vective, irony, ridicule or nonsense. Nobody could deny that the Germans have a native wit, although it......
We Are Proud Of Our Sense Of Humour, And There
are moments when we become a trifle conceited about it. At its best, it cer- tainly does indicate a balanced instinct for proportion and a wise conception of the proper relation......
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