Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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POOR COW. TV Director Kenneth Loach's first film tells the story of a scruffy London slum dweller (Carol White) with humanity that is never sentimental and humor that never jokes...
...Being perfect includes having a sense of humor. I think God would laugh harder than any of His children. He's all-understanding-remember...
More and more, that phrase has come to mean ads with a sense of entertainment and humor. One of Benton & Bowles's most successful TV ads, for example, features the bull-necked Korean who played the karate expert Odd Job in Goldfinger. Seized with a coughing fit, he nearly chops down his house with involuntary hand swipes before a swig of Vick's Formula 44 cough medicine calms him down. Even Ted Bates & Co., perennial champion of the hard sell, is going soft. It has dropped the sledgehammer animations it long used to illustrate (and often give) headache...
What makes the novel a little more than a flighty drag is Vidal's stylish and erudite sense of humor, his sharp pokes at intellectually provocative themes, and his spoofing of literary forms: the book, he says, is really "a send-up on the nouvelle roman." In that vein, he offers metaphor after metaphor based upon far-out late-show conceits ("I whispered like Phyllis Thaxter in Thirty Seconds over Tokyo"). And he makes it Myra's thesis that the flicks of 1931 to 1945, if not the high point of Western culture, were certainly the most formative...
...History Department, his sharp eye for graduate students and his awesome reputation among history departments around the world made him invaluable. For students, his informal yet dignified manner, his understated sense of humor, and his kindness exemplified Harvard at its best. Though a man of style and wit, Professor Owen was not flamboyant; he left Winthrop House with a quiet sense of pride, and he took the mild, subdued course in departmental affairs...