Word: humorlessness
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...silly question and you get a silly answer. If the reader is as persistent and as humorless as the anonymous interrogator, he gets 122 pages of very silly answers indeed...
...hard to believe that Mr. Jamison is not putting us on: does he really feel that the tedious, humorless thought purveyed by Dietrich Wessel and by the more calcified thinkers of the radical left is worth an hour and more of our Friday evenings? It is even harder to believe that Mr. Jamison could be "embarrassed to go to Harvard" because of the audience's reactions: I felt, with every burst of laughter and derision that night, that we were a healthy body defending itself against strangulation. May our laughter and derision be stronger for the next Dietrich Wessel. John...
...Stassen, according to friends, is as implacable "as a medium tank." Ponderous and humorless, he travels the country by airliner and rented cars to confront an electorate that does not care. To him, running for President seems to be somewhere between a hobby and a quirk. "He has this blind spot," said a friend, "this assumption that he knows more than anybody...
Potted to Pot. The PMC cadets still rise to reveille at 0700, freeze to attention any time an upperclassman barges into their room. They live in fear of humorless student commanders, who rule their daily lives. This month two cadets were expelled and one suspended when the cadet brigade commander learned that they had returned to campus after a drinking spree and sprayed each other with a fire extinguisher-a prank that would have drawn little more than tolerant laughs at most other schools. Even so, PMC has turned soft, complains Senior Cadet James W. McConnell, president of the student...
...supporters believe that they will not be able to carry out all the reforms they want, especially in the stagnant economy, until Novotny and his apparatchik cronies are uprooted from the government. Other Czechoslovaks simply want to banish the remaining vestiges of what had been a humorless and, at times, brutal regime. "Those who have lost the trust of the people," says Professor Ota Sik, author of the economic reforms that Novotny opposed, "must be driven from positions of trust...