Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best-selling novel, shows how a Georgia farm boy can send the U.S. Air Force into a tailspin. Maurice Evans has produced this new play almost as a sequel to the Teahouse of the August Moon, and though it lacks the subtle charm of its predecessor, its homespun good-humor is undeniable. The jokes are earthy and the grammar bad, but no one expects sophistication. No Time for Sergeants is a boisterous satire, and a very funny...
Needless to say, then, as a source of humor No Time for Sergeants is practically a goldmine. Military life is always a ripe target. But the show's dialogue needs tightening. It continually seems poured in around the catchy scenes and clever jokes as a filler, like cement. Funny situation are set up too obviously. The dialogue holds together only through the skill of the actors, who manage to prevent the humor from degenerating into slapstick...
...play has its bubbles of English humor. As the half-dead old man, Halliwell Hobbes brings particular life to his part, and Dennis King is bright, if a little broad, as a bitter doctor. Most of the other characters are more brooding in their lostness, but they fumble and philosophize, care or cease to care, without much individuality. Had there never been a Chekhov, A Day by the Sea might provide a rather welcome breath of fresh-airlessness. As it is, the effect seems both too faint and too familiar...
...must use all the latest preicate adjectives: "lunch," "shoe," "the most." You should show your sense of humor by giggling when you say something cute. And above all, you lose the game if you con less calling her because you think she's your type. You should appear at least to want to give her fun and laughs--dates, not tete-a-tetes...
...position of the Grandees remained much as they are described in Don Quixote. But it was the people instead of the nobility who now played the exaggerated gallants, in imitation of the upper classes. Superficially Goya's criticisms of foppery, greed, or ignorance are typical of enlightened 18th century humor. But no one can fail to sense the darker moralism, especially in the demoniac fantasy of the second half of this set. The satire is direct when compared to the Proverbs, yet the allusions to man's bestiality go beyond simple remarks on human foibles to a statement of original...