Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. The humor and passion of a middle-aged virgin, transmuted into the joy of teaching children. A major literary creation...
...this looked fine to Nikita Khrushchev. Indeed, even before the Camp David decision, he had seen what was coming and, in high good humor, summoned newsmen to the Kremlin for his second press conference since taking power (see FOREIGN NEWS). He told how his six-month deadline for the West to meet his Berlin demands had not really been hard and fast, and he accepted-without being formally notified-the May 11 date for the foreign ministers' conference, probably in Geneva. But real results, he said, could only come at the summit: "Let's put in the heavyweights...
Garbed in the extremely informal attire which has become their trademark, Mr. Corso and Mr. Ginsberg read extensively from alternately long and short poems, with Mr. Corso showing a much stronger tendency towards humor in his writing than did Mr. Ginsberg. The latter, to the considerable surprise of most of the audience, which had come in search of a sideshow, was an unexpectedly "serious" poet, especially in the long prose poem, Kaddish, and in the well-known Howl with which he ended his reading...
...flapdoodle ... If my remarks have hurt Brown, that can only prove that football is more sanctified than any of us has estimated. The only way to really help is to bring football back into the dialogue, to subject it to all the resources of the dialogue, including wit, humor, paradox...
...member of its cast are Negroes. All this would be the small talk of theatrical statistics if Raisin in the Sun were not a work of genuine dramatic merit. Playwright Hansberry, 28, has brought to her well-crafted play the gifts of intelligence, honesty and humor, a saving absence of racial partisanship, and a moving ability to use the language of the heart...