Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RUGANTINO, an Italian-language musical with English titles suspended over the stage, is a pleasant Broadway novelty. Its bawdry is innocent, its humor earthy, its girls look blessedly like girls, and its picaresque hero is forever outwitting himself...
DYLAN. In his final years, Dylan Thomas mourned in drink the distance between himself and the height of his poetic powers. Sir Alec Guinness is just the actor to show the humor, insight and inner pain of the sinking...
Much of the confusion about the state of Monk's mind is simply the effect of Monkish humor. He has a great reputation in the jazz world as a master of the "put-on," a mildly cruel art invented by hipsters as a means of toying with squares. Monk is proud of his skill. "When anybody says something that's a drag," he says, "I just say something that's a bigger drag. Ain't nobody can beat me at it either. I've had plenty of practice." Lately, though, Monk has been more mannerly and conventional...
Perhaps some New Yorker advised the road company that Boston folks just wouldn't respond to British restraint. At any rate, these young men feel compelled to land on every laugh-line with elephantine emphasis. This is hardly what Beyond The Fringe (really quite a subtle piece) or English humor in general is all about...
...tall, relaxed man with a good sense of humor, Dr. Spock discussed his own childhood at lunch with undergraduates in Lowell House. The eldest of six children ("with very strict parents"), he recalled that all his brothers and sisters had become involved in child care in one way or another: two became teachers, one a child psychologist, and one a Master at a prep school. Dr. Spock himself attended Andover and Yale, where he rowed on the Yale Olympic Crew...