Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson says he selected them "because they seem to cover much of what I wanted to say." Printed chronologically, they start with the July welcoming speech in Chicago, when he walked out on the applause because he was not a candidate, and end with the brief blend of humor and pathos that was his concession. It is, of course, impossible to read these speeches without hearing the voice, remembering the face on television, and tasting once again some of the partisanship of the campaign. Yet the voice was too high, the delivery too hesitant to add to the words themselves...
...ears parked on Mt. Auburn Street were maliciously snapped off. On previous occasions I have counted as many as fifteen ears parked on Dunster Street on which this same prank was played. Since the replacement of these aerials usually costs about ten dollars, I personally fail to find any humor in this wanton destructiveness. The countless number of windows around the University which have been broken by rock-throwing urchins is just another example of this vandalism. Especially in view of the fact that the business derived from the University singlehandedly supports local merchants, it is time for the Cambridge...
Probably the finest story of the nine is "For Esme with Love and Squalor," in which Salinger best merges humor with tragedy. It tells of a soldier in England, who agrees to correspond with a small British girl, and finds himself opening her first letter in Germany, months later, while he is in a state of shell shock...
Eternal Spirit. For last week's show, Old Dada-Daddy Marcel Duchamp had hung some of Dada's best humor and bitterest protest. There was a carved wooden head festooned with watchworks, metric rule and alligator wallet, a sickly pink portrait of a man with blotched face and four combs for hair, a gutter collage of torn ticket stubs, discarded buttons, hairpins and old newspapers. A phonograph beeped out Dada sounds, a metronome with a staring eye pasted to the blade ticked away methodically, and every visitor had to pass Marcel Duchamp's own contribution...
...bird had been foisted on the Russians as the American version of Picas so's peace dove by the Lampoon's rival campus publication, the daily CRIMSON. Gentle spent a half hour explaining the subtleties of American college humor to Tsarapkin at his Park Ave. headquarters...