Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assessing the political aftermath of Little Rock, Democrats last week saw small humor in Chicago Daily News Columnist Jack Mabley's new word definition. Federal bayonets in Arkansas might have cut away from the Republicans those Eisenhower Democrats who last year helped Ike win Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Tennessee-and might have skewered hopes of a Republican Southern wing. But the Democratic Party was in far worse shape. The Little Rock crisis crumbled the shaky foundation of compromise which had underlain Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign and the Democratic record in the first session of the 85th Congress...
This episode from The Genius, one of the 15 short stories in Author O'Connor's new book, contains most of the ingredients that make him an accomplished reporter of the emotions: wry humor about family life, a nostalgia for childhood, an affectionately gentle treatment of the confusions between old and young. In The Duke's Children. O'Connor touches on the mythology of all the sensitive young who are convinced they must have sprung from nobler loins than those of their earthbound parents; in Fish for Friday, a man's race for the doctor...
...storm broke, instantly, violently, as if with one light touch theologians had gone up in spontaneous combustion. The mildly questioning monk turned into a national hero. Rough German humor entered his manner: "If I break wind in Wittenberg," he said, "they smell it in Rome." Soon he boomed his great battle cries: "I have been born to war, and fight with factions and devils. [I] am the rough forester to break a path and make things ready...
Lesson of Tolerance. Author William James Durant (who was raised a Roman Catholic, now describes himself as a humanist) is a tolerant man who enjoys riding above the battle. With gently malicious humor, he quotes Catholic historians when he has something anti-Catholic to say, Protestant historians when he is anti-Protestant. To Durant, the men who tried to heal the wounds of Christendom, rather than the zealots on either side, are the "good" men of the day; but he believes that "our sympathy can go to all the combatants." Concludes Durant: "A religion is at its best when...
...bottle, the script continues, rose a genial genie who was carried to fame on an alcoholocaust of humor. ("I only drink to steady my nerves. And sometimes I get so steady I can't move.") He has long been known as "the comic's comic"a polite way of saying that he has never been widely popular with the public-and as a famous heckler-heckler. ("Come down to the pool in the morning, and I'll give you lessons in drowning...