Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Federal Alcohol Control Administration. He served as an aide to Navy Secretary Frank Knox during World War II and later wrote of that period: "They used to say that if you worked in wartime Washington, you would get one of three things: galloping frustration, ulcers, or a sense of humor. I guess I got them all, and I also got a great education in war, the world, our Government and my fellow man under every sort of trial and tension." In February 1945, Stevenson moved over to the State Department, where, as an assistant to Secretary Edward Stettinius, he helped...
...from time to time I can lift some little burden from him, even though it may not amount to much, I think that would be a real contribution." If Humphrey has totally reduced himself to the role of friendly adviser, he has not done so without a sense of humor. He has picked up the familiar Avis Rent a Car slogan. "I try harder," he says. "I have to. I'm only...
...politician without a politician's ways; instead of grinning gamely when, during one of his campaigns, a little girl handed him a stuffed baby alligator, Stevenson could only gape and exclaim, "For Christ's sake, what's this?" He was a man of rare humor, often expressed in self-deprecating terms. Responding to criticism that he was too intellectual, that he talked over the heads of the voters, he tossed out a Latinism: Via ovum cranium difficilis est (The way of the egghead is hard). He loved people and in his later years...
Even the editors of Patria did not try to pass off this document as authentic, merely intended it as a heavy piece of irony-the supposed humor of which many readers would miss. In its crassness, it was typical of the ludicrous, freewheeling propaganda war embittering the atmosphere in the Dominican Republic. Before the current crisis broke 13 weeks ago, Santo Domingo was served by three dailies with a combined circulation of 100,000. All three have suspended publication and have been replaced by wildly improbable, yellow-jaundiced scandal sheets...
...when a shaggy midget makes his appearance during the cafe scene. Toulouse Latrec was not selected randomly, but rather takes his place as the true spiritual father of Pussycat. The artist who painted the cabarets and brothe's of turn-of-the century Paris, and who accepted ugliness with humor and poetry fits nicely into the symbolism of the movie. And, just as the works of Latrec are considered tame today, perhaps Pussycat will seem demure in that coming age of untold license...