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Max Shulman 林欢畅 * Max Shulman was one of America’s best-known humorists. He was a writer of many talents—He wrote novels, stories, Broadway plays (百老汇戏剧 ), movie screenplays, and television scripts. March 14, 1919–August 28, 1988 * Writing Style His writing was often focused on young people, particularly in collegiate setting. A master of the outrageous pun and verbal caricature. Topics range from young love to garbage disposal were grist for Shulman’s wit. * Personal Details At the University of Minnesota Barefoot Boy With Cheek In the US Army Air Corps The Feather Merchants After returning to civilian life Shulman became a full-time writer with a large quantity of novels, short stories, screenplays and television scripts over the next four decades. * Dobie Gillis Shulman’s collegiate character, Dobie Gillis, was the subject of a series of short stories compiled under the title The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which became the basis for the 1953 movie?The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, followed by a?CBS?television series,?The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis?(1959-1963). * Dobie Gillis is significant as the first American television program produced for a major network to feature teenagers as leading characters. * Dobie Gillis also broke ground by depicting elements of the counterculture, particularly the Beat Generation, primarily embodied in a stereotypical version of the beatnik. Counterculture: a group in society whose values, ideas, and ways of behaving are completely different from those of the rest of society. the Beat Generation: a group of young people in the 1950s who did not accept the traditional values of Western society, especially on matters such as work, sexual relationships, and money. They had a lot of influence on the hippies in the 1960s and 1970s. “beatnik”: a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s who rejected the way of life of ordinary society and showed this by behaving and dressing in a different way from most people. * The Many Love