Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inner journey by Author Murray Schisgal. The trouble is that it doesn't go anywhere. Jimmy Shine is a transparent character; to see him once is to know him totally. What makes him a winning loser is Dustin Hoffman's bravura performance. Hoffman takes thimblefuls of humor, absurdity, poignance, honesty, desire and passion and drains them as if they were foaming crystal goblets of dramatic life...
Money to Be Made. Surprisingly, Lasky, 50, turns out to be an amiable, ex-Scripps-Howard correspondent, who describes himself as "a political centrist. I'm a hatchet man with a sense of humor," he laughs, though the humor is nowhere apparent in his book. In the foreword to RFK, Lasky claims to describe his subject "as he actually was," but privately he now admits: "I never really knew him. This was a tentative appraisal from one side. I don't tell the whole story. I'm trying to tell 'the opposite side.' That...
...Hays Sulzberger, 77, publisher (1935-61) and board chairman (1957-68) of the New York Times, who gave new depth and scope to the familiar slogan, "All the News That's Fit to Print"; after a long illness; in Manhattan. Sulzberger tempered his indomitable dignity with wry good humor. In order to succeed, he once said, "you work very hard, you never watch the clock, you polish up the handle on the big front door. And you marry the boss's daughter." Sulzberger did just that. In 1917 the young Columbia graduate married Iphigene Ochs, the only child...
...Roman Catholic Church until Vatican II renewal, Barth had to concede that some of his most astute interpreters were Catholic theologians. He mixed profound spiritual insights with a wit that could be caustic or self-critical; a friend called him the only Swiss with a sense of humor. He was aggressively anti-Nazi, yet strangely unconcerned about Communist aggression. An ordained minister of the Reformed Church, he delivered his best sermons before those whom he called his fellow sinners-the prisoners in the Basel jail...
Sweet Eros and Witness--Two one-acters by Terrence McNally, notable for their spasmodic blasts of humor and the most extended nude sequence to date to appear on a New York stage. At the GRAMERCY ARTS, 138 E. 27th...