Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years old, and one's initial reaction is to remark that the fellow still hasn't grown up. His work is formless, often maudlin, sometimes downright silly. Yet amongst his poems (and he is, or has been, a very prolific writer) are flashes of humor and even insight that make leafing through this newest volume a not wholly unrewarding hour...
...show begins. There are many scenes in which he rides roughshod over the poetry of the script. The small insights into character are one of Garcia Lorca's main assets as poet and play-wright, and by throwing them away he hamstrings the whole production. A bit of humor as well as more understanding and less frenetic acting would give the play vastly more verisimilitude, and in consequence make the tragedy more comprehensible...
Thus a mysterious Tibetan calling himself T. (for Tuesday) Lobsang Rampa described the operation that at the age of eight opened his "third eye," giving him, in addition to clairvoyant and telepathic powers, the ability to diagnose a person's state of health and humor from his "aura" (a cleaning man in a temper looked like "a figure smothered in blue smoke, shot through with flecks of angry red"). This was a mere overture to a long vaudeville show of astonishment presented in Rampa's account of his Tibetan life, The Third Eye (Doubleday; $3.50). Other attractions included...
...bright-eyed 72 when the film was shot. Truman favored posterity with his sunburst smile and flashes of his shrewdness, wisdom and trove of history. The camera and microphone etched the old cockiness and the saber-toothed campaigning technique as well as it caught the homespun simplicity and twinkling humor. Thanks partly to skilled editing, but mostly to its star's sheer self-characterization as an uncommon common man, the show was an uncommonly evocative historic document that made TV history of its own. Items...
...long, you could see the tongues, like from a cow, this is not love any more, this is delicatessen!" In the end, of course, both Slezak and Neal went back to their old playmates, having come to know that "the main thing is a little understanding and a little humor." The play had a little of both, thanks to attractive performances and to authentic Seventh Avenue argot by Elick (The Fabulous Irishman) Moll...