Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kitchen-Table Autocrat. He is innocent of humor. His only joke that associates can recall was a remark made when he arrived at a Labor Party meeting from a diplomatic reception wearing striped trousers and a morning coat. He began his address to the meeting: "Comrades, please forgive my working clothes...
...simple visions take on philosophical dimension because of his typically Spanish ability to combine gaiety and humor with the grotesque. Though this does not mean for him specific social concerns as it does with Goya or Picasso. Miro's world even as it exhibits the primal images of Jungian psychology does not cause pain. It does not probe or disturb the way Klee's calligraphic revelations of the subconscious seem to. Using one of his recurrent forms--the ladder Miro prefers to drift into a sea or sky world. As he said when the war broke out "I felt...
Instead of boy meets captivating girl, is trapped by captivating girl, Ratte's theme is boy thinks girl wants him back, boy sadly deluded. Because Ratte portrays this situation with color and humor, he not only makes his story most readable, but increases the pathos of the situation by the contrast of the intoxicated lover's joy and his impending disillusionment. The story is wonderfully economical for the narrator's observations reveal not only the true nature of the situation, but the essence of his character and the whole of his past experience...
...Judge Lynch himself. When Martin protests, he is placed under barracks arrest. In the last five minutes of the play, this monstrous parody of justice turns out to have been only a bureaucratic bungle: Gregory is cleared, Martin warmly praised, and the hidebound brasshats reveal with twinkling good humor that they had been suspicious of the real villains all along...
...that Red Roses for Me lacks the vitality of the earlier plays, for it is still the familiar O'Casey combination of humor and tragedy. The humor is more subdued now, however, and the terrible urgency that marked Juno and the Paycock has given way to a more somber and reflective atmosphere. As part of the change in tone, O'Casey adopts a prose style that is rich in metaphor and, at times, very close to poetry. The plot, in contrast, is extremely simple, telling the story of a young railroad worker with artistic inclina-who leaves his ambitions...