Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giraudoux's views of the world through rose-colored glasses, his frothy creation, a cake with two layers of pink frosting on top, and his celestial wedding of irony and humor charm us. With numerous improvements, the Tufts production should be a delightful evening's entertainment...
Tuned Sheep. But he went on with the show, served up nearly 30 minutes of his brand of exaggerated, wildly allusive humor. The first sketch was a pleasant conceit about a hot block of "tuned sheep," whose neck bells rendered a spirited version of Lullaby of Birdland. The second, "Incident at Los Veroces," was a live sermon about the self-destruction "of a thoroughly evil city" that is as revealing of Freberg's Baptist upbringing as of his zany imagination...
Birdlime in a Dell. It sounds like dismal stuff, but from the first lines of this play the Irish language contrasts with modern stage English as a cage of songbirds contrasts with a yardful of hens, and the reader is quickly caught in a Grand McGuignol of fatalist humor. Like Koestler, rumpled, mountainous Author Behan, 34, knows prison bars from the inside; he was sentenced in his teens to an English reformatory for dropping I.R.A. explosives into London mailboxes, has spent in all eight years in prison for assorted violence on behalf of Irish freedom. His dialogue flourishes with...
...sooner or later depends at present on a rotund, cup-nosed, mica-eyed man who was bustling and belly-laughing his way through Czechoslovakia last week. Xikita Khrushchev, the muzhik with the mostest. was acting like a champion who has dusted off the challenger. Overflowing with friendship and good humor, he bussed pale, frigid Czech Communist Leader Antonin Novotny on both cheeks and rode through Prague, which was tapestried with flags and banners and huge portraits of himself, on the jump seat of the reception automobile waving a panama...
Another episode (1921), drawn from Lady Gregory's one-act play The Rising of the Moon, is tinged with macabre humor that bids to be incredible. Perhaps only the Irish themselves can see the joke in a gallows. During Ireland's Black and Tan ordeal of rebellion "troubles" in 1921, a horde of citizens, ostensibly thumbing their beads, conspire to rescue a Condemned young revolutionary from his British jailers. Wearing saucy high heels under their false habits, two fake nuns thoroughly enjoy their patriotic lark at the death cell, wink, exchange secret smiles and repress girlish giggles while...