Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humor and Dinner...
...hints of unspecified internal organic disorders. The later years of disgrace and isolation have softened his voice, and he no longer speaks loudly as he once did. Reading in isolation has improved his grasp of ideas. It was always said of him that he was a man without humor. "There are no funny stories about Gomulka," says Peasant Leader Stanislaw Banczyk. He is essentially a lonely man. He and his wife Zofia, a member of an old Russian Bolshevik family (purged by Stalin), live quietly in a tiny apartment in the Warsaw suburb of Praga, have no social life...
Cranks tries so hard to be different that there are no real skits at all-which are the lifeblood of a revue. Except for Actor Anthony Newley, there is no touch of that special drollery which is the backbone of British humor. And despite a good deal of moody strumming, there is little in the way of tunes. With its self-conscious patternings and posturings, Cranks, at times, less resembles a revue than the rites of some such sect as the Stanislavsky methodists...
This is a corrosively funny novel about business chicanery. Its unlikely author: a Communist with an irrepressible sense of humor. In Threepenny Novel, the late German Playwright and Novelist Bertolt Brecht takes the position that business is crime conducted in an aura of respectability. His book is somehow engaging despite this classic Marxist idea, because of its raffishly vital characters who make all the Cash McCalls in their grey flannel suits seem as sedate, proper and wooden as the paneling of their executive suites...
Saturday morning at 9:30 a series of panel discussions on various scholastic newspaper problems will begin. Topics to be considered include photography, censorship, makeup, editorial writing, reviewing, sports writing, the use of humor, finances, features, and news writing. The students will be able to attend two of these panels, and when the second set ends about 12:30 p.m., they will return to the CRIMSON for a buffet lunch. The Conference will adjourn after lunch...