Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President regained his voice and some of his normal good humor at Los Angeles. He had a smidgin of good news. The Gallup Poll showed him way ahead in Minnesota and edging up in California...
...Agnes de Mille doesn't dance often, but when she does, her mixture of classical precision and homegrown humor sets balletomanes cheering. As the nation's top choreographer, she is usually too busy doing other things. By bringing ballet to Broadway, she thinks, she has "opened the door for dancing" in the U.S. Sometimes she suspects she has opened the door too far: she has already seen too much imitation De Mille on Broadway. Says Agnes: "It's shocking...
...Waugh is excruciating and malevolent and vastly inventive. But not in "The Loved One." It is chiefly a one-joke book, and the joke isn't very good--it's about funeral parlor techniques--nor is its effect savage. So practically nothing of Waugh is there--little malevolence, less humor, and no inventiveness...
...that would seem entirely new-from his tricky Rudepoema (inspired by the profile of Pianist Artur Rubinstein) to his brilliant Bachianas Brasileiras, a volatile mixture of his own two idols, Bach and Villa-Lobos. He is a fiery little man who can jump in an instant from twinkling good humor to a shouting, stamping rage. He is vain enough to give his age as 60 (though friends say he is 67), and to rush his music indiscriminately into print. "The maestro," a Rio critic once said, "has written about 2,000 works. I would throw 1,950 of them away...
...born on Chicago's South Side while his father was a sportwriter on the old Chicago Examiner. Of the Lardner boys,* only John has followed in his father's sport steps. He also seems to have inherited his father's ear for speech and tongue for humor. After a year at Harvard, he went to work on the Paris Herald, then spent three years on its parent paper in Manhattan, under City Editor Stanley Walker. He married the boss's secretary, Hazel Cannan, and became a sportwriter, and later war correspondent, for N.A.N.A. and Newsweek...