Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Alpert, a psychedelic experience involves "mind altering," or outside the usual path of one's oughts. He described his act of coming "variety, humor, and interesting stories" to suggest to people that is more inside their minds than think...
Though White Voices sounds titillating in summary, its lustfulness, weakened by fast and frequent fadeouts, is mostly suggestiveness. The rest of the humor is fetid stuff, performed with more energy than art, ranging from gags about chamber pots to winking asides about transvestitism as a career. Voices may excite curiosity among gentlemen with a taste for camp. Jones boys will find better things...
...Humor in the theatre depends on timing, timing on confidence, confidence on applause. An actor who misses his first laugh is likely to strain for the next--which is sure failure. Only a quarter of the Loeb's seats were filled for the opening of Eastward Ho, and the audience didn't warm up until the second act. With a bigger audience, a drunk or excited or happy one, the current production might be wonderful Last night it was flat...
...exit speech where she demands her betrothed come to bed with her. And after so graciously kneeling to ask her father's forgiveness in the last act, she was in too much of a hurry to have Gertrude run away with herself in her delighted confession, and lost the humor of the scene...
Then I say, Uh-uh. I am tired by this time, and not altogether sure, with such impressive weight on the other side. But I say at last that it is almost a great book. It is wildly flawed, too big for Mailer, unbelievable, confused, without humor (though with much wit), not a thriller (though it might have ben a smashing thriller), not a psychology, lacking in characterization. But finally, An American Dream has immense proportions--almost, one might say, mythic proportions--and the relentless pace of carnivore running hunted through a modern jungle to feast and keep from being...