Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years in Congress-ten in the House and nine in the Senate-McCarthy has placed his stamp on very little legislation. To some of his colleagues, his sardonic humor is cynicism; his casualness, indifference. Though McCarthy has scant chance of winning the nomination himself, he might, by attracting a sizable antiwar and anti-Johnson vote in the primaries, focus attention on Johnson's weakness and open the way for another candidate-his friend and colleague Robert Kennedy, for example...
...nations themselves. The special gift of Nigeria's Wole Soyinka,* the continent's foremost black playwright, is to speak to Africans about Africa in the concrete context of today but with a keen residual sense of the past. He is emancipated without being alienated. Blending mock humor with flare-lit passion, he is both a satirist and a mythopoet...
...looks "like a leftover from the Last Supper," and his so-called mistress is a breastless, hipless, bass-voiced androgyne. Ultimately, the general goes his filial foes one better at anarchic nonconformity by growing a beard himself, living in a tree and mastering the guitar. The quality of the humor is as strained as the plot. Ustinov seems to have aped Bernard Shaw without the wit, Neil Simon without the wisecrack...
...cornerstone of Kraus's approach is that the cathedral is a series of frozen tableaux of medieval life, depicting not only its highest ideals and aspirations but also the age's pungent humor, conflicts and upheavals. He decisively abolishes the traditional cliché that the medieval church artist was a humble, self-effacing artisan who labored piously for the greater glory of God and his own salvation. Instead, Kraus emphasizes that at least 25,000 artists left recorded names, won high wages and even knighthoods for their work, and notes that workmen occasionally even went on strike when...
...triumph of discourse-in-demonstration was made possible, in part, by the good humor of the Dow representative and the commendable tolerance of some deans, who let the protest run its course without resorting to the police," he wrote...