Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winter Comedy," Christopher Fry's own description of his new play, is appropriate. The gay pastels of humor which clothed the British writer's earlier verse plays have changed to colors of a darker hue, and philosophy, not fun, is the keynote of The Dark Is Light Enough. The change of mood has not been an entirely fortunate one, since Fry is more attractive as a writer of comedy than as a deep thinker. But if the tone is new, the language is as it always was: a brilliant flight of imagery that demands air and open space and seems...
Marty. The love story of "a very good butcher"; home truth and homely humor in the life of an ordinary man-well found by Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, well expressed by Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair (TIME, April...
...contingent. There is a slightly grating moment when the Apache becomes too obviously a mouthpiece in declaring that this hung-up age cannot exist without jazz, but it is easily absorbed into the whole. Corso's play does not reach for much, and is the better for it. Its humor and its design are blunt; it elicits spontaneous enthusiasm...
...often, then growls at them harshly, "Honest folk may act like sinners, unless they've had their customary dinners." Whatever one thinks of Brecht's grievances of thirty years ago, he makes them compelling and troubling. Marc Blitzstein's fine translation never abates Brecht's wrath or his humor...
Marty. The love story of "a very good butcher"; home truth and homely humor in the life of an ordinary man-well found by Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, well expressed by Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair (TIME, April...