Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DYLAN. Alec Guinness plays Dylan Thomas on his last U.S. reading tour, his humor biting but not bitter, his heart in neither his life nor his poetry...
DYLAN. Alec Guinness plays Dylan Thomas on his last U.S. reading tour, his humor biting but not bitter, his heart in neither his life nor his poetry...
...WHITE AMERICA testifies evocatively to the patience, humor and bitterness of the U.S. Negro as he has suffered the negation of his constitutional rights and human dignity...
Although his themes are hollowness and banality, Pinter never gets boring or inane. Symbols constantly tempt the imagination. The pathetic small talk that dominates his dialogue generates a grotesque humor. While Pinter's characters chatter the same phrases over and over, his plays take on a futility that makes them funny and an expectancy that makes them suspenseful. The comic tone shuts off as a climax approaches, because in Pinter's drama a slow disinterment of inner tragedy creates the suspense...
...significant as his indictment of adult attitudes is the laugh with which he makes it. Not only does such humor keep the kid-acting natural, it makes for better philosophy...