Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TARTUFFE. Moliere's humor and intent were more bitter than the Lincoln Center company's farcical interpretation of this classic comedy implies. But Michael O'Sullivan's hypocritical misanthrope is a superbly drawn character...
Only Lithgow seems to be straining at the restrictions. His fits, his rage, his fear, his humor, demanded a bigger stage. It may be, too, that Lithgow hasn't worked out his interpretation of the part completely. Before the murder of Duncan he is too fearful; his ambition is not quite convincing. After that he alternates between a derisive irony and an unhinged fury that don't seem completely related...
...amused by your article in the humor section on "McNamara's Band...
...menageric of personalities in the Directory refflects both Viansson-Ponte's sense of humor and the nebulous character of Gaullism itself. Viansson-Ponte deliberately avoids set definitions. To be a Gaullist one must be loyal to the General or to a cause which coincides with the General's ambitions. The hard-core cadres of Gaullism belong to the elite Union pour la Nouvelle Republique (U.N.R.). Millions of women cast their ballots for the General simply because "they are used to him and are afraid of what would happen were he to disappear. But the most devoted Gaullists are the oldtimers...
...Stern's novel about a TV show that puts unsuspecting people on camera. The Negro problem was the subject of Warren Miller's recent The Siege of Harlem, a sly, timely pseudo history of how Harlem became a separate nation. Some writers, of course, take up black humor for just one novel, like Kesey or Stern, and then go on to other things. But other novelists who are not themselves black humorists have also felt the liberating influence of the wild ones...