Word: humorlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite these considerable handicaps, Radcliffe's Idler players are presenting an entertaining production of "A Doll's House." They render Ibsen's sometimes awkward lines as smoothly as possible and manage to enliven a largely humorless play...
...place but Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker, the letter would have passed for a piece of broad satire. But not in the humorless Worker. Last month Writer Walter Lowenfels had written an article in the Worker on the high cost of meat entitled "This Little Piggie Went to Market"-and had thereby tripped over the party line. Last week, in a letter to the Worker, he told how it had all been a horrible mistake...
...current events ancient stories and pictures about the rollicking 1890s and the depression-ridden 1930s. Old Charlie Chaplin movies are reported, not as achievements in comic art, but as true stories about U.S. treatment of tramps. From some cute remarks to a paper's inquiring photographer, the humorless Reds built their definition of the typical U.S. male's ideal pleasure: beating Mae West...
...months Ricardo Balbin, leader of the Radical opposition, had sat in jail for calling the President a "dictator" and a "liar" in a campaign speech (TIME, May 1, Dec. 11). During that time, criticism of such harsh and humorless punishment for a political opponent had risen sharply both at home and abroad. Balbin, more popular than ever before, shouted from his cell: "I have no regrets. I am less a prisoner than those on the outside...
...most standards, Simone Weil was an absurd and unattractive woman. Almost constantly ailing, painfully humorless and so intense she was either irritating or ridiculous, she agonized through a short life of 34 years and died in 1943 in a gesture that seemed to typify her gift for futile heroics. She virtually starved herself to death in England by refusing, though she was weak and ill, to eat more than the wartime ration for her native France...