Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most people, however, took the rationing with great good humor, plotted how to include unrationed tablecloths, drapes, narrow ribbons in their couture. Looking forward to the worn ensembles, shiny elbows and frayed cuffs of the future, President Oliver Lyttelton of the Board of Trade sugar-coated the pill: "I know all the women will look smart. We men may look shabby. If we do, we mustn't be ashamed...
...first story, by Richard Scowcroft, is "The White Princess," announced as a chapter from a novel. It is a perceptive study of childhood, distinguished by the difficult balance it nearly maintains between humor and sentimentalism; its weakness is that it continues for at least one page after it is finished. The second story, enigmatically entitled "The Native In The World" (sometimes "The Native Of The World," which makes the matter no clearer) is by Howard Nemerov. Here, in the familiar world of the Houses, Dunster Street, and St. Clairs, we are invited to observe the psychological antics of unfamiliar characters...
...nothing more than witty lines and superficial characterizations and plots. The second act of "The Man Who Came to Dinner" shows both the art and the artists at their best; they play may easily be the masters' masterpiece. It's an unbeatble laxative for a constipated sense of humor, and just what the doctor ordered for thos blue-book blues...
Nock absolutely refuses to let erudition exclude humor. A good time is his ideal, whether on the platform at Harvard or in the catacombs of Rome. A messy desk and a baggy suit are the first steps to scholastic success. He prides himself on the library so swelling that it over-flows onto the kitchen stove. Life for him is a succession of research, lectures, writing and travel. He must, in his own words, "walk just fast enough forward so as not to run backwards, Righto...
...chaplain's official training manual five times tells them they must have a sense of humor. "If you don't have a sense of humor when you get in the Army," said a chaplain in Texas last week, "the boys give...