Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demanding, and, over all, as more mature than women." Says Editor Dorrance: "In the movies the taxi driver, the waitress, the drop-forge operator are comic relief. In our magazine they're the hero and heroine. We have no comic figures. Women, after all. have little sense of humor...
...committee member said of Yovicsin, "He is accustomed to training People himself, and teaching them the elements of football," and called him "engaging, earnest, with a good sense of humor...
...dull consulting-room comedy, but a brilliant illustration of what is wrong with most jokes about psychoanalysis. People who have not laid themselves on the couch are hardly in a position to get the joke, while people who get up from it have generally lost their sense of humor on the subject. Nonetheless, Edward Chodorov's play had a startling success in Manhattan, where the largest group of U.S. psychoanalysts lives and practices-apparently as a sort of cut-rate abreaction for those who agree with Sam Goldwyn that "anybody who would go to a psychoanalyst ought to have...
...remainder of the program--Beethoven's First Leonore, Debussy's Danses Sacrees et Profanes, Brahms' First Symphony--was full of moments that made it difficult for a person with a taste for grotesque humor to keep from laughing aloud. The trouble lay primarily in three things--the terrible out-of-tuneness of the strings, the lifelessness of the playing, and the lack of intensity and precision in Attilio Poto's conducting. Each contributed to the others...
...social "supermarket." The first act takes Clara through the Radcliffe Library, a jolly-up and a few other slow starters. What saves the act from becoming disastrously tiresome is the free swinging chorus girls (sixteen, in charming red shorts, weighing a collective ton) and the show-stopping humor of Liz Stearns as the charcoalgrey, knee-soxed intellectual who is seized by the need to know (first hand) what happens when the intellectual "worm turns...