Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Brian Friel applies the saving sponge of humor to the Irish sentiment that pours from his play, and Dubliners Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford, as twin images of the hero, stir up a fine farrago of laughter and tears...
Beaming avuncularly at the reporters wedged three and four deep around his White House desk, the President observed: "I would say we all ought to be commended for our good spirits and jolly frame of mind. I appreciate the good humor you are all in. I don't know how to account...
Lyndon Johnson, looking trim and tanned, is in pretty good humor himself these days, and he is only too happy to account for it. He is optimistic that by continued persuasion and pressure -"the jawbone technique," in Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler's phrase -he can keep the booming U.S. economy from spiraling out of control. On the international scene, he can only be reassured by the strident argy-bargy between Moscow and Peking, despite some pundits' predictions that the U.S. stand in Viet Nam could only induce harmony between the two great Communist powers (see THE WORLD...
...other birthday gifts, a huge pair of sporty sunglasses with checkerboard rims. Actually, around George Hamilton, whose thespian career has blossomed like a Texas rose since he began squiring Lynda, the starry-eyed President's daughter blended well enough as it was. "She has a great sense of humor that'll get her through anything," said one of their set. "Even this weekend...
...York Telephone Co., the New York City Transit Authority, and the Republican Party (when accused of calling Henry Cabot Lodge "a broken-down Republican," he denied indignantly that he had used "a phrase so redundant"). He has even taken out after Santa Clans; last December, with characteristic gallows humor, he sent out Christmas cards showing St. Nick hanging by the neck...