Word: humorless
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...diaries. Everybody knows that. In her family living room we have been spying her, every evening after supper, ostensibly unravelling math problems for school, but in reality, of course, documenting the sordid details of her mother's scary sleep-walking, her father's hunger for inheritance, plus all the humorless nagging and nit-picking French bourgeois coupling. (Not for spite or for blackmail, but she confesses--addressing the camera like a fellow detached spectator--merely for her own amusement...
...There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor," said Robert Benchley. If the 180 behavioral scientists who last week attended the world's first International Symposium on Humor at the University of Wales had listened closely, they might have heard a sigh from Benchley's grave. TIME London Correspondent Christopher Byron attended the three-day meeting and sent this report...
...even considering that I'd been up till 3 that morning just timing it. And before I leave, I just kind of make a joke about how I can't wait till April 16 and the finals, and she only fixes me with this cold, frigid, and humorless stare and reminds me as if I don't know that first I have to pass the preliminaries so they can narrow it down from around 20 or 30 people to eight...
...bland and irrelevant. "The Establishment has decided that Doonesbury is a cute little expression of how clever kids are," says Harvard Senior Tom Hubbard. "It's been co-opted, and we're getting tired of it." Right now, however, that "we" is a tiny and humorless minority...
...13th of 13 children; her father lost what money he had when she was five. Simenon's father died young, and getting by was not easy. In his only long novel, Pedigree, Simenon has written about his childhood in Liège; Henriette appears as Elise, a hardworking, humorless, almost avaricious woman. She eventually remarried a man who had what she always wanted-a pension from the Belgian railway...