Word: humorlessness
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...muttering to himself." Yeats sometimes primed the medium via telepathy, but he doubtless was not amused by the "seer" who responded: "I have a vision of a square pond, but I can see your thought, and you expect me to see an oblong pond." On another humorously humorless occasion, the poet deputed a vampire to plague one of his enemies. The reckless, insane logic of the spirit world sometimes pursued Yeats far beyond the seance rooms. Years after his long, frustrated courtship of the hauntingly lovely firebird of the Irish Troubles, Maud Gonne, had ended with her marriage to another...
...fellow who'll be doing all the talking." wrote Austin Wheatley in the Detroit News, "will be Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle. The New Frontiersman will run into a very old Frontiersman. He probably knows what he's up against-a man aloof, lonely, enigmatic, humorless, sometimes Machiavellian, sarcastic, self-confident, courageous, irritating, pigheaded, visionary, indispensable and a hard bargainer." Frank Conniff, national editor of Hearst papers, suggested more succinctly that Kennedy might find the old general "teeth-breaking." In the breast of the Times's James Reston lurked the hope that the U.S. President...
...humorless Senator Taft, for instance, does not come in for very sympathetic treatment. At a Yale Corporation meeting with "Mr. Republican," Acheson recounts, the group was discussing Yale a science program. Taft interrupted a speaker to announce "Mr. President, I went through Yale without taking a single course in science...
Kansas. White-thatched Andy Schoeppel, 65, seeking his third Senate term, has backslapped his way through the state to hold an edge over Frank Theis, 49, a humorless lawyer and a Democratic Party bigwig. Despite a lackluster record, Schoeppel has a way with Kansas voters ("He just looks like a Senator...
...hero, is fond of making trips into the countryside to pose as the peasants' folksy friend. In Zhivkov's case, the effect is diminished by monotone oratory and a repugnant personality. A onetime printer and World War II partisan leader, chunky Todor Zhivkov, 49. is cold, humorless and conceited. Under his leadership, Bulgaria has become the only European satellite which has successfully herded virtually all its peasants onto collective farms; it is also one of the few countries in the world that possesses fewer cattle now than in 1935. But in Khrushchev's eyes, Zhivkov...