Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elizabeth's legitimacy is in doubt, however, where does that leave poor Nausicaa, who was identified as a "rare form of Greek disease"? Although this might have been merely grim humor, another identification in the same course--Hum 2--was more purposefully thought out. The passage, from the Divine Comedy, described Mathilda taking Dante across the river Lethe, and giving him a symbolic baptism--washing away sins so he can enter Paradise. Mathilda tells Dante, "Hold me! Hold...
...when the spirit of coexistence sneaked in via the back door in the person of Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, 63, top Kremlin agent in Budapest during the rape of Hungary, who has a normal smile and what one newsman called "blunt words, crackling wit and unfailing good humor...
...Messiah. There is erratic, hard-drinking General Hugh Johnson, who. when he was finally forced to resign from NRA, in his farewell speech to his staff tearfully quoted (in Italian) the lines sung by Madame Butterfly before she commits harakiri. Author Schlesinger also manages a certain amount of humor in describing the great rush of theorists to Washington, including the Agricultural Department lawyer who. on a field trip. saw his first lightning bug and cried: "Good God! What's that...
Perhaps significantly, the grimly bizarre comedy is Williams' first play to be produced since he abandoned his well-advertised long-term lease on the psychiatrist's couch. Upbeat only in comparison to his other plays, Period nevertheless glows with several scenes of gentle, off-focus humor, as when the two men boozily dream of raising buffalo (a "dignified beast") to rent out to producers of TV westerns. And if the play was a surprise to Miami theatergoers (who may be the only ones to see it; Williams is still undecided about taking it to Broadway...
...occasion "when you get that subtle secret message that says, 'Go!' and you plunge, and it's a passionate kiss, and it's off center, and you wind up with the tip of her nose in the corner of your mouth," Shelley Berman's humor is all composed of life's familiar anxieties and embarrassments. He has been recording them for as long as he can remember...