Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discipline of the Katangese soon collapsed. Drunken guerrillas ran amuck, shooting, killing, wounding, maiming and raping. Random executions increased after the rebels heard that a rescue attempt was under way. Some of the guerrillas displayed a kind of gallows humor. A mission priest was confronted by raiders who admired his cutlery, clock and radio...
...time he was in his early 20s, Fats, who at 250 Ibs.plus had already earned his nickname, was well known among musicians; before he was 30, he was on nationwide radio. He developed a style all his own, and his music was marked by a constant vitality, good humor and an inimitable, natural ease. The songs he composed had the same ebullience. "There isn't a dead bar in his music," says Richard Maltby Jr. "Every one has a joke in it. He wrote the wittiest songs I've ever heard." Besides the title song, Waller...
...director of the Frankfurt Opera in 1933. He moved on to Palestine, where he recruited an orchestra in Tel Aviv, and then to the U.S., where he became Arturo Toscanini's assistant at the NBC Symphony. In Pittsburgh, Steinberg was known as a disciplined maestro of self-effacing humor whose camaraderie with his musicians helped bring out their best talents...
...little bit of this sort of humor goes a long way, a lesson that the gifted Fran Lebowitz has yet to learn. Metropolitan Life (Button; $8.50) blitzes the reader with such lines as "Food gives real meaning to dining room furniture . . . Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money ... If God had meant for everything to happen at once, he would not have invented desk calendars . . . Sleep is death without the responsibility." It is a foppish wit that is very conscious of taste, class and sexual pre dilections, but Lebowitz herself remains...
...There is nothing imaginary, though, about the time, effort and deliberation they customarily devote to the trivial, the insignificant, the utterly negligible. Nebraska's legislature, for example, has just dealt with a bill to add, as consumer representatives, two corpses to the state anatomical board: that passes for humor in Lincoln. Rhode Island's senators breezily adopted a resolution praising the hairdo of a female legislator, but the house turned aside a proposal to decree ricotta the State Cheese. In Florida, the legislature recently indulged in boisterous repartee over a measure that would have made it a crime...