SOURCE: Sheed, Wilfrid. “The Wit of George S. Kaufman and Dorothy Parker.” In The Good Word and Other Words, pp. 159-63. New York: Dutton, 1978.
In the following discussion, Sheed argues that the wit of Kaufman and Parker should not be thought of as a compensation for or expression of a psychoneurosis, but that as writers they deliberately created recognizable and marketable brands of wit.
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