Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rendered him down to a shoat") and the pleasures of ignoring a watch ("We sit here thinking we have plenty of time because the sun is where it is, and the shadow of our pencil is falling at the plenty-of-time angle"). Occasionally Berrigan forgoes his humor, reports with fascination on subjects like dawn coming to a Thai village: "In the quiet hour before the sun bursts above the surrounding trees, and the mystery is burned from the sky, the villager is closer to his God than when he kneels in the temple...
...piece must end. Another Stockhausen experiment: Groups, a 20-minute work which calls for three orchestras playing simultaneously under three separate conductors. His work in progress: a piece for electronic and conventional instruments, which will allow the instrumentalists to play fast or slow, loud or soft according to their humor...
...have been treating Hawaii and Alaska in the same way France has been treating Algeria-forcing upon their citizens the duties of American citizenship without its rights. Thank God that the territories' citizens have been taking their maltreatment in better humor than Algeria's citizens have...
...Will They Talk to Me?" In the White House last week, the man in the eye of the storm sat weary and dispirited at his desk. The grudging spark of humor and the sudden flashes of gaiety that he sometimes permits himself were gone. Tom Stephens, the President's appointment secretary, who helped Adams win the Ike primary in New Hampshire, stepped into Adams' office. "You know how you like to kid me about helping you in New Hampshire?" said Stephens. "Well, I want to help you now, and in a few months I think...
...Maleter had confessed guilt, deliberately failed to give the date of their execution (which probably occurred only a few hours before issuance of the communique). Asked when the trial had taken place, Chief Prosecutor Geza Szenasi displayed what presumably passes in Communist circles for a nice sense of humor. ''Before the verdict," he grinned...