Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your article . . . written with good humor and marred by only a few . . . anti-McCarthy conclusions. I chuckled at your exposure of the stupidity of big-shot coverups for little-shot fumblings with enlisted Communists...
Keeping his comment to a minimum, Murrow made his show largely from newsreel clips of McCarthy in action on the rostrum and the committee bench-a contrived but effective record of arrogance and assumed martyrdom, of half-stifled belches and heavy-handed humor. Radio & TV men spent the next day congratulating each other that the networks had, for once, shaken off their habitual timidity...
...dialogue, stressing unexpected humor, the incongruous wise-crack, is almost as heroic in spots as the palmists bits of derring-do in earlier Bogart pieces. Jennifer Jones, with blonde hair and a sometimes British accent, accounts for much of the dialogue in situations. As a woman who, while not exactly a liar, "relies more on her imagination than on her memory," she keeps the verbal stew bubbling with a series of fantastic stories. But the authors are kind to all the actors, and everyone has his share of marvelous lines...
...quickly learned to hold out against his mother. He had a good ear for unintentional humor, and when mother Butler urged him to have "his loins girt about with the breastplate of purity," she made herself ridiculous in his eyes. But the canon was much too tough to be soluble in comedy. Young Sam would have liked nothing better than to win him over and impress him, but he always failed. Sam disappointed his father by refusing to become a clergyman; the canon infuriated Sam by pestering him mercilessly about his future intentions. As Sam had no idea what these...
...future I suggest that you concentrate on accuracy and leave any attempt at humor to an organization designed for that purpose, i.e.--The Harvard Lampoon. Oliver Lobkowlez...