Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S. Good humor and excellent performances abound in this affectionate tribute to the raunchy days of oldtime burlesque. As a seedy song and dance man, Jason Robards wears a straw boater as naturally as John Wayne wears a Stetson...
...Rasputin. In return for the South's electoral support, the stories went, it was Thurmond who had final clearance on Richard Nixon's vice-presidential choice, Spiro Agnew, during the Republican Convention in Miami. Nixon recently alluded to his Dixie friend with some of his newly discovered humor. It was delivered at a dinner of the Alfalfa Club, a group of top businessmen, professionals and Government officials that starts off the term of a new President by putting forward, as a joke, their own choice (this year's joke: Harold Stassen) The way to pick a running...
Aiming for the classic genre, Director Robert Mulligan occasionally misfires. But he is saved, somewhat surprisingly, by Peck, who is in private life an avid collector of Lincoln memorabilia. With flashes of ironic humor and his customary rigid dignity, he escapes the boundaries of the role and gives it an honest, Abe-like stature. The rest of the cast is resolutely unglamorous; even Saint has the hollow eyes and concave face of a woman who has been out on the plains too long...
Diorita C. Fletcher '71, president of East House, said that the raffle would take place as scheduled tonight. "The raffle is intended only as fun and good humor, not as a white slave auction," Miss Fletcher said...
Four Radcliffe South House tutors are offering a noncredit seminar on black humor this semester which may develop into an accredited course next year, Willard F. Keeney, teaching fellow in English, said yesterday...