Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his patchwork life; his fundamentalist upbringing, his Rhodes scholar days, his unorthodox interpretation of John Locke, a stint for Hearst in Spain, wartime service with the OSS, and his views on F.D.R., Comte, Proudhon, Marx and Tocqueville. But then Mosby decides that his memoir needs a touch of humor...
...kisses her on the cheek. (Audience chuckles.) "How are you, darling? Are your knees bothering you? Well," he says, tugging down the hem of her skirt, "they sure are bothering me! [Guffaws.] I'll pick you up later, dear! [Louder guffaws.] Ah, everybody's in a good humor today! Did you have your prune juice this morning? [Laughter.] That's niice! By the way, while you're here in New York, we'll see to it that you are well taken . . . care of, that is! [Loud laughter.] Oooh, you're good...
...Britain retains by far the biggest U.S. stake. It has $2.9 billion invested, mainly in petroleum (Royal Dutch/Shell), chemicals, textiles, insurance and a range of consumer items that includes Brown & Williamson's Viceroy cigarettes, Unilever's laundry products and Good Humor ice cream, and hot-selling Capitol Records, in which EMI Ltd. has a controlling interest. Current sterling-export restrictions are making expansion difficult but not impossible. Much as U.S. firms do in Europe, Bowater Paper went to U.S. capital markets for its share of a new $14 million newsprint plant that it is building jointly with...
Most writers would raise an inch or so of suds atop this murky flow of events. Bowen tells the story in a series of sharp, enclosed scenes with irony, dry humor and a terse, elliptical style. She sets pragmatists against emotionalists, opportunists against those who answer only to the hungers of the heart. Like Portia Quayne, the heroine of Bowen's best-known novel. Death of the Heart, Eva leads a life totally unlit by love. She attracts people, but when they reach out for her, they grope in darkness...
...only Miss Oates were content to be just a modern romancer-to go all the way with her unnerved vision. Her trouble is that she seems to regard her book variously as a black-humor exercise, a parable of national sickness of heart, and, worst of all, a realistic piece of social reportage. Too cool for fantasy, too hysterical for imagination, Expensive People says too little half the time, and too much the other half...