Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dark and dead. Mr. Docken and Miss Collinge were strong in their final despair and they occasionally exploited the rich humor of the text. The finest comic moments, however belonged to Michael Solomon, who as the judge of supernatural events is almost worth the price of the ticket. His timing is keen, his voice wonderfully flexible, and his facial expressions consistently alive and amusing. John Weiner has a brief but superbly played part...
...LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. "Our lives have come crashing down around us like a pile of trays," Fitzgerald wrote to his friend Edmund Wilson. It is during these last sad years that most of the letters were written, and they show courage and humor in the face of every kind of adversity...
Nobody Loves an Albatross fails as a moral lesson. Preston's remains a countryish buffoon from beginning to end; his plight never forces the audience to examine the necessity for honesty. The pathos raises no ethical questions; it simply dampens the already soggy humor...
...himself or drop dead. When at the outset of Act III, he does produce a good script, he basks in a few short moments of glory until his fraud is discovered: he stole the story from a Shirley Temple movie on the Late Show. At precisely this point the humor drains out of Nobody Loves an Albatross, for the audience begins to realize just how pathetic Preston is. His friends all deliver homilies to the effect that honesty is the best policy; his secretary (she loves him and he wants her) turns her back on him. To Preston, though, life...
Despite the humor of this chapter, The McLandress Dimension is not a great success. First of all, its seven essays do not hang together; several seem to have little connection with the others. In a few cases, Mr. Epernay appears to have inserted Dr. McLandress almost as an afterthought into essays in which he plays no real part...