Word: humorlessness
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Advance to the Rear. Since any departure from formula comedy seems worthy, a slapstick farce about the Civil War perhaps deserves a nod for trying a different attack. This frolic manages, however, to be unremittingly fast, flip, energetic, and for the most part humorless. Based on a sober historical novel by Jack Schaefer (Shane), the movie attempts to spark laughs by logging the misadventures of Company Q, a detachment of Yankee misfits led by inept Colonel Melvyn Douglas and his wry-smiling lieutenant, Glenn Ford. The boobs under their command include a firebug, a flagpole sitter, a kleptomaniac, a skittish...
...Shahn's cover picture of Lenin speaks of Communism with an eloquence as powerful as Dostoevsky's The Possessed. Here is Lenin's face, not the likeness that God gave him at birth, but the likeness of the twisted, humorless, mad, rationalized world he built for his followers. That cramped, despotic teaching hand is the perfect portrait of a Communist textbook or a Party meeting...
...Tall & Humorless. In London two months ago, Field had been unable to win from Britain any concessions on the constitutional issue. Outraged, the Rhodesian Front turned to 45-year-old Ian Smith, a rancher from Selukwe who had served as Field's Minister of Finance...
...Tall, humorless Ian Douglas Smith is a rough customer. As a Spitfire pilot with the R.A.F. during World War II, he survived a crash that left the right side of his face paralyzed, was later shot down over Italy and fought for five months with Italian partisans behind the German lines. After the war, under former Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, Smith served in the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly. But Sir Roy did not believe in complete independence from Britain, and Smith split with...
Wind from the East. Suslov, a cadaverous, humorless court theoretician who served Stalin long before Khrushchev came to the fore, drove home his attack by disclosing that Old Stalinists Georgy Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov and Lazar Kaganovich, Sinophiles all, had been ousted secretly from the Communist Party in 1961. Suslov declared that the "antiparty" trio subscribed to the selfsame heresies as Mao. He singled out Molotov-who had variously been Soviet Premier (in 1930) and first editor of Pravda (1912)-for particular vituperation. Harking back to the murderous Soviet purges of the 1930s, Suslov accused Molotov of attempting to surpass Stalin...