What is goodman?

Famous quotes containing the word goodman:

“The same people who tell us that smoking doesn’t cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn’t cause smoking.”
—Ellen Goodman (b. 1941)

“Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.”
—Paul Goodman (1911–1972)

“I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors
since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this
present twelve o’clock at midnight.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)