Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Molly is, artistically, the same composite of lower and middle class that the Goldbergs are socially. It stands where dialect humor and realistic observation meet-or, more frequently, collide; where characters are a little more than exploited but a great deal less than explained. Atmospherically, the whole thing benefits from a certain warmheartedness; as a human being, Playwright Berg shows her characters a respect that she withholds from them as a writer. But what's worst about her as a writer-what makes her play first commonplace and then dull-is that...
Three Daring Daughters (M-G-M). Producer Joe Pasternak discovered long ago that charming young people, musical celebrities and double jiggers of relaxed good humor and good will are likely to shake up into a very pleasant musical. He has poured out the mixture, with happy results, quite a number of times (100 Men and a Girl, Two Girls and a Sailor, etc.). But the recipe doesn't always work ( Three Daring Daughters...
Opening up the profund mysteries of Newtonian physics or thermodynamics to an audience that once thought itself incapable of such heady stuff, LeCorbeiller tosses in Einstein, Euclid, Plato, or Aristotle wherever they are relevant--and often with a sudden thrust of refreshing Gallic humor...
...also displayed a somewhat elementary sense of humor. His favorite butt was the cook; he likes to remember creeping into the kitchen to surprise her by hiding a raw apple within one of her roasted chickens. His humor has not grown much more sophisticated. Recently, when asked why he had gone to see the Hollywood version of the Hemingway story The Killers, he replied: "I heard those gangsters had found a new way of making money...
Irishmen here & there gave their opinions. Said Man-of-Letters Oliver St. John Gogarty, in Manhattan: "There's not much humor in the man Costello, but then there was not much humor in De Valera either." James Dillon might make up for that. Dillon, who used to say that Dev's agricultural policy was "no eggs, no poultry, no bacon, and damned little of anything else," became Costello's Minister for Agriculture. Arch-Nationalist Sean MacBride, whose Clann na Poblachta joined the coalition, became Minister for External Affairs...