Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Symphony for the past 25 years, his efforts in behalf of community and student groups have been immense. Unfortunately, Harvard has enjoyed his association for only a year, but in that time many students have discovered that the most exacting musical standard may be commensurate with great sympathy and humor...
...bishop conjectured that America is in danger of losing its sense of humor. "What kind of a spectacle are we becoming?" he asked. "If we Americans could stand off in space and look at this foolishness, the mad, merry search for the spotlight that has been going on for two or three years in the name of antiCommunism, I think our native sense of humor-our ability to laugh at ourselves, to recognize that we had been taken in-would save us, if nothing else...
ENTERTAINMENT: a double award, to NBC's Fred Coe, producer of the Philco-Goodyear TV Playhouse (for "superior standards and achievement"), and to NBC's Imogene Coca of Your Show of Shows (for "implike, contagious and entirely original humor...
...this new post, Bentinck-Smith meets not only the world's leading scholars, but its leading screwballs as well. "Strangely enough," an associate on the Bulletin says of him, "dealing with screwballs is the forte of this good, solid, man. He has enough humor to appreciate screwballism." So, the incensed anti-Communist or the Fcencyite to whom the President is always busy, might find himself ushered into Bentinck-Smith's office where he will find a patient listener...
When Adlai Stevenson showed up last week in Charlotte. N.C., newsmen noted his heavier tan and lighter humor (compared to his showing in Miami last month), but few other apparent changes. If not running for office, he was at least a man in motion. He was still glad-handing party pols and casting pearly wit before crowds (on his bothersome kidney stone: "A subversive element"). It was only in his major speech, wildly cheered by some 3,500 Carolina Democrats, that a bigger change showed...