Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with them, but without compromising on fundamentals. He cut his sermons from an hour and a half to 24 minutes. At first he would no more have drunk a highball than try to get a laugh in church. Later he even ordered a set of books called Wit and Humor of America from the Methodist Book Concern, took to reading Mark Twain. It helped...
...layman himself, Mr. Dallwig knows what laymen are interested in. He relies on humor ("Anthropology is the study of man, embracing woman"), homely philosophy ("Anthropology is merely the science of human sympathy and understanding and thus it is through anthropology that we will do away with war"), and even nimble histrionics. He mimics a battle between Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, two terrifying dinosaurs, jumping back & forth from one role to the other. He believes in snappy titles-"Mysterious Night-Riders of the Sky," for example, is more titillating than "Meteors & Meteorites." Science teachers from all over the Midwest have joined...
...battle with Curley, the tapirnosed bald head. And all this goes on amidst rhumbas and tangoes by a red-hot Pan-American band! The more cultured group will be nauseated by rough and ready buffoonery which makes the Marx Brothers seem subtle by comparison. But if you like your humor simple and sincere, the Keithe Boston's dizzy program offers a bellyful of laughs...
Marine Corps humor is also traditional, and the items fit for print are oddly in the Punch tradition, generally told with an air of we-were-gathered-over-the-cigars-and-claret. Once the Corps adopts a joke or limerick, its form is rarely changed, hangs on through generations. Typical toast...
...concerto; to the first movement with its spacious calm and serenity; to the second, with its almost unberable poignancy, probably the nearest Mozart ever got to out-and-out lyricism; and then finally to the third movement, in the true sense of the word "happy," sparkling with fun and humor. Listen to any Mozart, and you will find even less clue than in the A-major to what he is specifically thinking, but you will find in it a nameless depth which cannot be put into words...