Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days and three nights. But, as most of his students will testify, Owen's capacity for enlivening history has survived. A descendant of two Baptist ministers and one teacher, Owen lectures in a style reminiscent of both the preacher and the scholar. He adds, characteristically, a strong dose of humor, often sardonic, to keep the state of British history in lively repair...
Vyacheslav Molotov dodged. First he dipped into humor: Mr. Eden, he said wryly, had spoken "like a scholarly constitutionalist of a strict German type." Eden embarrassedly sucked a cigarette and studied the Last Judgment painted on the ceiling; the others had a good laugh...
...with dismaying regularity. But not even Eve is often seen in the classroom. Usually she cruises the high-school corridors on the heels of Bob Rockwell, a biology instructor who is impervious to the most blatant advances from Teacher Brooks. In fact, much of Miss Brooks's humor derives from remarks made innocently by Rockwell and turned into leering double entendres by Actress Arden (e.g., "Miss Brooks, haven't you got something for me?" Miss B.: "Of course, you just haven't noticed...
...deserving of their protest." The thread of this dry, dispassionate satire hangs on the question: Will the murderer be caught? He is, but that hardly matters. What does matter is Novelist Aymeé's picture of provincial life. It is the prototype of a stock cliche of French humor, and has begun to yellow a bit with age. Although expertly composed and amusing in spots, it is trivial and slightly out of focus...
...musical scoring, generally too loud and obvious, intensifies the horror of these struggles for food. Grim marches accompany the centipede as he hunts for his luncheon, and a horn tootles mysteriously while a red and black striped burrowing snake wriggles his body in the sand. But Disney's humor comes out in the music as well. Square dance music and hilarious narration spice a scorpion courtship...