Word: humorlessly
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...regime. At least one Cabinet minister and about two dozen top officials of his ruling Democratic Republican Party have been living in an exotic residential area that local newspapers called a "thieves' town." All Park could do was force them to give up their luxurious apartments. In his humorless campaign speeches, Park concentrated on the country's security problems. He quashed the idea of dealing with the North in the foreseeable future. Instead, he insisted that North Korea was poised for another attack on the South. "The situation is reminiscent of the eve of the Korean...
Albert Jimson's assertions in the letters column of April 1 represent either the worst form of self-righteous ignorance or a humorless April Fool's joke. The argument that abortion is murder has been proven specious many times before, but another refutation seems to be necessary...
...Aires exerts a powerful influence on its presidential occupants, elected or not. Juan Carlos Ongania, installed after the last civilian government was overthrown in 1966, was ejected last June by his former military comrades for planning a corporate-style state with himself as its permanent head. Ongania's humorless, moody successor, Roberto M. Levingston, succumbed to the same dreams of grandeur; some of his aides even took to calling him "the Emperor." He overestimated his own power and underestimated that of the army chief who had given him the presidency in the first place, Lieut. General Alejandro A. Lanusse...
...manages to be offensive along the way. (I might also point out that the auditorium it is presented in has the atmospheric requirements for a sauna bath, and the seats are arranged in such a way as to leave ample legroom for dwarfs.) By bad I mean bad -tuneless, humorless, structureless. (On this last point, I could explain how the show actually collapsed into its conclusion a half-hour before the final curtain fell, but I'll save that one for my friends who had the sense to leave the premises at intermission...
...Mansfield tradition, role-playing at Woman Writer -"capital W, capital W" as Mary McCarthy has bitterly remarked. On its deceptive surface. The Edible Woman can be mistaken for an airy little comedy about a girl who works for a consumer-research company while resolving to marry a humorless young lawyer, too Mr. Right to be true...