Word: humorlessly
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...between Jews and non-Jews. Now she has trouble fathoming why people are angry at her. Leni's lack of understanding is revealed to the reader at third hand by a character called Au., an abbreviation for Böll's imaginary "Author." He is a priggish, humorless drudge who is determined to assemble the life of his living subject through interviews with people who knew...
...Berger is not simply mocking the humorless posturing of radical Women's Libbers and the increased respectability of homosexuality, is he saying that the domination of either sex by the other is obscene? In that case circa 1973, the subject is not startling enough to serve as underpinning for a satirical novel with intent to shock. As a corollary to the sex reversal, Berger describes extreme cultural and economic dilapidation. Is this merely the author's way of flushing the U.S. a few decades down the drain of the future, or is he questioning the competence of women...
...Vice President Eric Hodgins recalled, this compliment "caused even those among management to utter harsh, humorless laughter." The management structure was altered to give the publishers more autonomy, but it remained "a benevolent and indulgent monarchy," since Luce retained the final say in all major decisions. That began to change in 1960 when, in a reorganization, the founding executives made way for a new president and board chairman. In 1964, Luce himself solved the problem of editorial succession by picking Hedley Donovan to be editor in chief of all Time Inc. publications. It was Donovan, not Luce, who decided that...
...saddening that American theater can produce such an unimaginative and humorless foray into the legitimate subject of marital problems. Everything in No Hard Feelings has been done better by Mike Nichols or Neil Simon, and the producers no doubt hope to recreate their commercial successes. Unfortunately, audiences with real troubles of their own pay to watch such dribble...
...Times columnist. Safire, 43, was a successful public relations man before joining the Government four years ago. "People know I'm a Nixon man," he says. "I always have been. I guess that makes me a centrist, or just to the right of center." In a relatively humorless Administration, Safire stands out as a wit and phrasemaker. He wrote The New Language of Politics, a droll political lexicon, and is credited with coining the Agnewism "nattering nabobs of negativism...