Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voice that can be soft or raucous, manners that can be rude or gentle or courtly, and an emotional pattern that swings him like a pendulum from the serious to the absurd. His dignity can slide easily into arrogance and his humility into self-abasement, but not for long. Humor-his own humor-brings him back toward center. Marshall will listen so avidly to his colleagues' scholarship that he has been called a brain-picker, but he trades jokes with no man. Around him, the ceaseless flow of anecdotes is all outward. Buffoonery relaxes his tense spiritual muscles. Buffoonery...
Marty. The love story of a "very good butcher"; home truth and homely humor in the life of an ordinary man-well perceived by Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, well expressed by Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair (TIME, April...
...reader may see nothing in the book but slick self-pity and ears and eyes so gross and clumsy that they could not furnish credible continuity for a horror comic. But apart from its uproarious, if unintended, humor, the book has another significance. Author Fast's works offer an insight into the nature of the enemy. On that basis, Americans may reach the useful conclusion that the enemy is not so bright as is generally believed...
...Door to Hell. The work breaks off at the end of Volume I, and perhaps none too soon. Krull is surprisingly funny, but at times the humor is as heavy as Kartoffelklosse-and not helped by a translation that misses much of the hero-villain's comic pomposity. The action falls asleep at one point while Mann delivers himself of a monumental snore : a 20-page lecture on the nature of the universe...
Marty. The love story of a "very good butcher"; home truth and homely humor in the life of an ordinary man-well perceived by Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, well expressed by Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair (TIME, April...