Word: humorless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Camillo, Don Camillo and His Flock), show the marks of haste; all were written originally for a right-wing humorous weekly that Writer-Cartoonist Guareschi ordinarily edits and supplies with half its material. Some are forced. But no more amusing satire has come out of the essentially humorless battlegrounds of the cold...
...have character and an air of devil-may-care. But the new grey suggests only a drab conventionality which will mar the graceful, happy lines of Cambridge's oddest building. And it may also have the effect of reducing the high plane of Lampoon writing to a drab, humorless style. Witness the March issue...
...tall, bald and humorless President White opened the meeting, he announced that a stockholder had obtained a court injunction that prevented him from holding the meeting. Reason for the suit: Textron had not had enough time to get its plan before the American Woolen stockholders. Up jumped Lewis D. Gilbert, who makes a career of attending stockholders' meetings, to protest adjourning "this meeting without the approval of stockholders." Replied White: "But I'm the defendant. I am not permitted to go on with the meeting." In the confusion of other protests, Lawyer Robert H. Montgomery, company clerk, recognized...
...because Boswell is frank in his conceit and self-evaluations, however, that his journals are a pleasure to road. Humorless, ambitious, stuffy, he wrote down what everyone occasionally thinks. This evidence cannot be used against him by the reader. Though one laughs at Boswell, one cannot but feel a sympathetic bond with him ever almost two hundred years...
Studio One opened its sixth TV season last week by boldly offering an hour of utter despair. A grim, gruesome, humorless show, it was television at its best. The teleplay: George Orwell's bitter satire, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which Mrs. Orwell released to Studio One only after assurances that there would be no tampering with her late husband's blueprint of the ultimate police state...