Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Generally speaking, this company is not quite up to the task. The pace is slow, the timing sporadic, and the movement stiff. Nevertheless, the natural humor and inventiveness of two of the performers provide some highly amusing moments...
...good sense of humor," Rickover went on. "You are looking for publicity. If you were here all day, we would make an atomic expert of you." He added that he would like to see "exchanges of atomic experts, provided the people were as amiable...
...Doria ships also helped Emperor Charles V in his struggles to win Italy. Charles rewarded him with a huge mastiff - and then a princedom "for the dog to run in." The admiral kept his palace staff hopping to the tune of bosun's pipes, once exercised his princely humor by order ing all his silver flung into the sea at a banquet's end. Afterwards Andrea Doria hauled his silver up again, in nets previously spread for the purpose...
...Gibson's quiet humor and relaxed manner was enjoyable, but I felt that this young folksinger would be more effective in a night club than on the concert stage. The humorous, catchy folksong is Mr. Gibson's forte; he delighted his audience with "The Horse Named Bill," a nonsensical little number that has been a favorite on college campuses for generations. His recollections of Aspen and his own song "Super-skier" were delightful...
...romantic--and "Loves of the Puppets," in the same vein as "Voice from Under the Table." His song from the musical "Candide," Dr. Pangloss' song on "the sunny side of venereal disease," was the most entertaining moment of the evening, though most of his work was touched with humor. All his reading was much more restrained than Kunitz', suited to the more relaxed manner of his poems...