Word: humorlessness
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...veto over his rival, Chou Enlai, who was reappointed Premier. Liu's name now follows Mao's on all lists, and leads the rest when Mao's does not appear. Tall, gaunt Liu Shao-chi is one of the least known of the Peking rulers, a humorless man whose slightest pronouncement on Communist theory rings among the party rank and file more loudly than the bombast of other figures. His wife once said of him: "He has an inexorable heart...
Everyone could. The suspicious, humorless Soviet crews arrived in France festooned with "secret" instruments (i.e., stopwatches, portable altimeters, audio-timers that would sound a warning buzz in time to pull the ripcord, safety devices for opening chutes automatically at minimum altitude). They brought along three political tutors: an army colonel, an interpreter and a Tass correspondent. They haggled endlessly over procedure, spent two hours on the ground discussing a maneuver in the air. But they put on an exhibition of fine precision jumping that won them the championship with ease. In second place: the Czechs. Third: the French defending champions...
...doubt as to its ultimate approval was removed by the constitution itself. Its preamble, a pedestrian preface to 106 dryly written articles, says with humorless certainty: "The first All-China People's Congress of the People's Republic of China solemnly adopted our country's first constitution in Peking, the capital, on [day blank, month blank, year blank]," thus anticipating the action of a congress which is yet to be convened, on a date yet to be announced...
...Camillo, Don Camillo and His Flock), show the marks of haste; all were written originally for a right-wing humorous weekly that Writer-Cartoonist Guareschi ordinarily edits and supplies with half its material. Some are forced. But no more amusing satire has come out of the essentially humorless battlegrounds of the cold...
...have character and an air of devil-may-care. But the new grey suggests only a drab conventionality which will mar the graceful, happy lines of Cambridge's oddest building. And it may also have the effect of reducing the high plane of Lampoon writing to a drab, humorless style. Witness the March issue...