Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOMECOMING is a totally engrossing drama. Written sparely by Harold Pinter, directed tautly by Peter Hall, performed perfectly by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, it tickles one's humor while gnawing the instincts and scraping the soul...
...wholly unkempt look is considered antisocial and a sign of Western decadence. Alarmed by the growing number of beards appearing on students and intellectuals, Rumania has now earned the distinction of being the first Communist state to take official action against the menace. With the invincible Communist lack of humor that no amount of economic liberalization can cure, the Rumanian government has decreed that beards may henceforth be grown only by special permission...
...sense of humor probably helped when Fairbank's name, along with that of many other American China specialists, was thrown into the cauldron of the Internal Security Subcommittee by a few former Communist agents. The charges against him, as against most, were false but inconvenient. After traveling all the way to the West Coast, he had to cancel a sabbatical to Japan when the American occupation army refused to clear him for entry. With some difficulty he was granted a hearing before the Senate subcommittee on Internal Security. Mindful of others who had waked in trusting only their own innocence...
Perhaps the best thing about all the decorations and anecdotes that clutter the scene is a sense of humor, a sense of freedom, a suspicion that anything can happen-perhaps even passion. In this welter of the current art world, it is still possible to say, or sense, that some things are good, some bad. There is the almost haunting fact that one metal glob or set of blinking lights will somehow tug at the imagination, while another will not. That Savarin coffee can full of paint brushes, which is in the Museum of Modern Art at the moment...
LETTERS OF JAMES JOYCE, edited by Richard Ellmann. The letters show the terrors and jealousies that were transformed into irony and humor in Joyce's great novels...