Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capp, creator of "L'il Abner," appeared at a Law School forum last fall on the subject of humor. Capp said at that time that Richard Nixon was the funniest man in the country...
...Cold was humor is pretty grisly stuff. Conceived in the shadow of Hiroshima's mushroom, most of it is as macabre as the chalkings of a condemned man on the wall of his death cell. For almost an hour Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow looks like an exception, juggling atomic weapons with a familiarly deft British touch. Then, as if exhausted by the harrowing task, it too succumbs to the subject matter...
Unfortunately, the first half of the film wrings all the humor from Pott's predicament, leaving the second no fuel to run off. The Moscow scenes, which could have been hilarious, are eked out with stock routines which lost their humor three years ago. The only really comic sequence in the second half if Potts' imitation of a Chinese delegate as he escapes through a Berlin Peace Conference...
...kitchen, and reams of brilliance in a shopping bag, Nock leads an active, many-sided life, ordered amid the helter-skelter. Choosing the scholar's monastic life, he has in his erratic, diverse way filled an essentially lonely pattern with lifelong friendships and warmth. For his active sense of humor extends beyond Little Audrey and limericks; it takes in his sealskin hat, his omnipresent umbrella, indeed, Arthur Darby Nock himself...
This afternoon, Nathan Pusey will be officially installed as Harvard's twenty-fourth president. Like his predecessors, he has his own ideas about what changes the University needs, and like them, he will find that his innovations will require all of his wisdom, perseverance, and humor. We wish him success and happiness in the many years ahead of him and Harvard...