Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from the consideration that Communism is a somewhat macabre subject for humor, The Great Sebastians has other grave faults as a comedy. Many of the jokes get such an elaborate buildup that the audience can anticipate them minutes beforehand. Most of the others are inevitable. The whole first act, moreover, has almost no funny lines at all, either good...
...Antarctic expedition, lean Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard Evelyn Byrd, 67, unwarily recalled: "No woman has ever set foot on Little America . the most silent and peaceful place in the world." By the time he reached Dallas on his way to New Zealand, lady pickets awaited him. In high good humor, they waved signs protesting his womanless haven. Explorer Byrd smiled wanly...
...college kids," who in time have developed an aptitude for making people laugh, work under the General Hospitals Program of Phillips Brooks House. Not all their endeavors involve the production of mere good humor in the five Greater Boston hospitals to which they are assigned. While one Volunteer may waste away the hours playing checkers with paralyzed 11-year olds, another may find himself busy with the most menial tasks in a city hospital accident room. The enthusiasm which College and Radcliffe Volunteers have shown since the beginning of the term, in a veritable renaissance of student concern...
...warm and realistic sketching of his characters, largely through details of their conversion. Heliczer's strange form, in fact, seems almost necessary to counter the realistic detail of the young pedant, his acid girl, and their combined sensuality. Heliczer's narrative style is light and lucid, and his humor does not obstruct the seriousness of the piece as a whole...
...Late George Apley, whose narrator is the perfect embodiment of the kind of Harvard man that Marquand has been satirizing for the past twenty years, explores with amazingly sustained deadpan humor the narrow social sensibility that one usually associates with the "Old Grad" type. Clubs, the "Pudding," and afternoon tea at prominent Boston houses are the essential activities of George Apley at Harvard. With very minor variations, this type of society is the one that Marquand writes about when, as in Wickford Point and Sincerely, Willis Wayde, he turns specifically to Harvard. It would be silly to base a general...