Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleasant light reading. In fact, if Casey Stengel's memoirs were to appear written in the plodding, colorless prose of an introductory mathematics textbook, it would still be difficult to find a book as unrevealing of the author's character as A Profile. Virtually all of Pettigrew's exuberance, humor, and fondness for improbable metaphor has been carefully excluded. Yet if scholarship has supplanted lively writing, the scholarship is always topnotch and usually provocative...
...Charles has done beautiful things with the great possibilities for humor and anguish that do exist in Poet. Leigh Warton is superb as Cornelius Melody--the role brings out the qualities in any versatile actor. Katherine Squire plays his wife Nora with a simplicity that suggests deep understanding of her role. As Sara, Miss Alexander has the most demanding job, and particularly in the third act she is wonderful. But her accent is too American--it lies nowhere between her father's aristocratic tone and her mother's brogue--and some of her movements are not fitting...
...MOTHER'S KISSES, by Bruce Jay Friedman. A very funny novel about a domineering mother and her miserable teenage son. Friedman balances bitter humor and driving obsession to create an inimitable comic style...
...keep a job, can't feed his family, can't face the comitragic truth about himself. In his careful and intelligent novel, a bestseller in 1960, and now again in the careful and intelligent script he has written for this film, Author Brian Moore describes with horror, humor and humanity what happens when a middle-aged child wraps his lip around the lollipop of life and finds that it has turned into a stone...
Ordinarily, the discovery of humor in a humor magazine offers little cause for astonishment and Freshmen--to whom this merry September number is dedicated--may wonder what the hullabaloo is all aout. The sordid veritas is that out 'Poonie friends have churned out, with alarming consistency, flabby issues of insipid verse and effete prose; they have nourished an involuted, exclusive brand of sneery-smile humor (nothing off-color, of course) and the result has been that, m beyond the arid confines of Lampoon Castle and Hasty Pudding, I have scarcely ever heard anyone laugh out loud at a Lampoon...