Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House the week began with the President in a foul humor. He resented the blatantly political charges by the Democratic Advisory Council that he had handled the Little Rock school integration crisis indecisively. He was concerned about the gyrations of the stock market. He was infuriated by White House Adviser (for foreign economic policy) Clarence Randall's description of the Soviet Sputnik as "a silly bauble." Dwight Eisenhower scowled darkly at the humdrum text of a speech on medical education, tb be delivered to the National Fund for Medical Education that night in New York. Growled...
This is not to say that the performance was not well-done. Most emphatically it was, and Mr. Williams's careful and moving performance milked out every nuance of humor and pathos in his skillful adaptation for the stage from Thomas's prose. Particularly effective was his handling of Just Like Dogs, which succeeded so well because it concentrated on third persons, and was effective as a story because it did not depend on the rather weak comparison between Thomas and Williams. This is a very skillful and compressed piece of work which captures with economy and yet exactness...
Student reaction to the cancellation was mixed. According to an editor of the Yalie Daily, "A lot of people thought it was in fairly bad taste, but would have liked to see it go through--college humor, you know...
...would not matter if Saroyan wrote first with an eraser−to wipe out reality−if afterwards, with a pen, he created magic. But this play has little magic: only a stab of pathos, now and then, in a wilderness of plight; or a flash of color, humor, poetry amid constant murmuration...
...breed remain fresh because the actors play their parts at once wholeheartedly, and with a bit of tongue-in-cheek. Lorre's bulge-eyed gulp in the muzzle of a Luger pointed at him is an exaggeration of all fears of death, and so very ludicrous and excrutiatingly funny. Humor in humorless situations, as Greenstreet waddles at top speed through the Metro to escape a gunman, and then safely aboard a train doffs his hat to the killer, keep the story moving at high speed, always fascinating...