Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is a first novel about a small New York businessman that blends folk humor with wisecrack as if Sam Levenson had had his jokes edited by George S. Kaufman. Hero Bill Roth, 23, is an ex-G.I. working for his engineering degree who lives with his parents in The Bronx. He sleeps on a sofa couch in the living room "on the main trade route from the bedroom to the bathroom." When he stays out late with girls or comes home with liquor on his breath, he is treated to his mother's virtuoso sighs...
Closing the doors on his carefree horse-and-filly days, aging (46) Playboy Aly Khan, now Pakistan's permanent U.N. representative, rounded into smooth diplomatic form for his first on-the-job reception, celebrating Pakistan's Republic Day. Full of charm and good humor, Envoy Aly manfully greeted some 1,100 guests (among them: U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, mad-hatted Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper, Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) who in two hours guzzled 30 cases of champagne, chomped 30 Ibs. of phaji (spinach fried in batter). For his crowded frolic, Aly earned an approving smile from...
...airliner at Moscow airport, Comedian Bob Hope got a bleak stare from a heavily bearded Russian when he asked: "How're you fixed for blades?" So it went for his seven-day visit to shoot film for his April 5 NBC show. Hope's Western brand of humor was largely wasted on the Russians, even when translated, but his running quips on Soviet life traveled well to the folks back home...
...exhibits for display within the gigantic Stone showcase have already raised the cry of scandal from art critics who object to showing American primitives and North American Indian art plus younger U.S. painters to art-sophisticated Europeans. But U.S. fair officials are hoping that a mixture of candor, humor, friendliness and a generous display of such technological gadgetry as closed-circuit TV, a quizmaster IBM machine, and fashion shows, will win friends for the U.S. To do this the U.S. will have to work out some way to stay within the already strained overall budgetless than a fourth...
...Germans, no matter what the rest of the world says, have a wonderful sense of humor-if only they were not so serious about it. This picture, adapted from the last novel published by the late Thomas Mann, is a classic instance of deutscher Witz: a good joke, badly told but brilliantly explained, heartily laughed at by the teller, laboriously retold from several other angles, and reduced, in conclusion, to its philosophic essence. In this case, unfortunately, the essence is a dull epigram. "Love the world," Mann's hero cries, "and the world will love you." The statement expresses...