Word: humorlessness
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...leader who would keep Texas safely on the conservative side in 1952. Shivers, however, was not certain that Connally would step down. He decided to run for re-election as governor, and to let his attorney general, Price Daniel, run for Connally's seat. (Daniel, 41, an intense, humorless lawyer from Liberty, Texas, a former speaker of the state house of representatives, now is certain to succeed Connally...
...Manhattan, Novelist Ruth (All About Eileen) McKenney, who was notably humorless about her membership in the Communist Party a few years ago, told a New York Times reporter that she fears the American public is losing its taste for humor. Said she: "A lot of humor implies criticism of established institutions and behavior, and right now we're trying to keep our faith in the established order intact. [Self-appointed censors] want people to laugh only at the approved jokes. No more levity when it comes to religion, intelligence tests, foreign accents and insanity . . . Bad taste. Why, the great...
Readers of the early season scrimmage of the Great Ideas may relish this anecdote. Intending to be facetious, I once asked an ardent indexer whether God had been included in the index. His prompt, patronizing and humorless reply stunned me: "Yes, but we've subdivided...
Despite these considerable handicaps, Radcliffe's Idler players are presenting an entertaining production of "A Doll's House." They render Ibsen's sometimes awkward lines as smoothly as possible and manage to enliven a largely humorless play...
...place but Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker, the letter would have passed for a piece of broad satire. But not in the humorless Worker. Last month Writer Walter Lowenfels had written an article in the Worker on the high cost of meat entitled "This Little Piggie Went to Market"-and had thereby tripped over the party line. Last week, in a letter to the Worker, he told how it had all been a horrible mistake...