premise:  It ill behooves me , excoriated recently as enamored of the cheap larf , to criticize Safire ' s arch puns , which permeate ' enliven is probably the word his editor would use ' his articles , but I find s ome kinds of humor unsuitable for reading , however they might evoke a chuckle when uttered viva voce. A handfjl of examples , from the bok at
hypothesis: I find that Safire tries too hard to make his readers laugh.