Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard Waring's dupable Cassio is convincing. But it is a mistake for him to be clean-shaven, since Iago makes a pointed reference to his beard. As the love-sick, not-too-bright Roderigo, Richard Easton indulges in the right amount of humor, even incorporating a few Harpo Marxian mannerisms. He properly appears with clean face at the beginning of the play; but, after Iago tells him to disguise his baby-face and increase the manliness of his appearance with "an usurped beard," he should of course don false whiskers for the rest of the drama...
Citation: "A quick and restless mind, a profound understanding of charity, a winning sense of humor and a radiance of manner-these attributes make her one of the outstanding women...
...automatons create jobs and whole industries-but also the immediate problem of displaced workmen and the long-run challenge of how the U.S. can use a new leisure. The CBS show struck a hopeful balance on whether automation is "weal or woe," even managed to find some humor in both the men and the machines...
Thank you for a fitting eulogy on TV's last appeal to humor and reason-Sid Caesar. Henceforth I shall read on Saturday night...
...Kittinger replied in code that he would not come down. Winzen pleaded. Back from 18 miles overhead came the coded answer: "Come and get me." Stapp and Winzen were afraid that hypoxia (lack of oxygen) had unsettled their pilot, but soon they recognized Kittinger's normal style of humor...