Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank you for the hilarious Dec. 30 article, "Summit Simmer." May I suggest that Art Buchwald of the Herald Tribune take over as White House Press Secretary? At least he has a sense of humor, something totally lacking in Ike's little bulldog...
...quarrel with Bellamy's performance might as fairly be lodged against the author or the director. Roosevelt appears too jaunty and gay when he is first stricken. Confidence and good humor did indeed mark his illness, but they are too extreme here and Bellamy does not convey the strain that F.D.R.'s grin must have been for him then...
...best lines stand out too conspicuously, or more often remain submerged in the gray sounds of grammar and they must be hunted for. One has the feeling that the poet is mumbling to himself. The absence of an audience is also implied by the almost total lack of humor despite the title of the poem...
...readers some of stagecraft's "dreams," "contrived hallucinations" through which one might "Now in attentive webs, catch rapture fleeting." The sounds are precise, pleasing, and appropriate. The images cast out to the listeners are nearly as fine as the sound that bears them, and there is a welcome humor in the poem's treatment of itself and of its audience. Nash uses a picture within a poem; here we have an aside from a play within a poem that carries itself out to the satisfaction...
...First Love" by Jonathan Kozol is a short story about the not so innocent first love of two thirteen year olds: Pixie, the innkeeper's daughter, and Cherub, a visiting youth. It has all the ingredients of an excellent story, humor, sex, concrete and abundant metaphor, good description and suspense. The dialogue is sometimes devastating: (Pixie): "You know what Daddy has said? Daddy says they don't wear bathing-tops in the desert. He says I will only need my panties." The story is somewhat less than excellent, however, because of spotiness. There are lapses in the consistency of metaphor...