Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, May 28, says "Harry S. (for Swinomish) Truman." Is that a bit of humor lost on me? My biographical material says that "S" alone is used because the Truman family was unable to agree upon whether it really stood for Shippe or Solomon...
...think that for an American magazine you handled the question of U and non-U speech [May 21] splendidly. But there is one aspect of this enthralling subject which seems to me to have been generally overlooked: the U attitude, around which a whole school of humor has grown up. The classic story of this school is, I believe, the following: A young officer who had lived through the Battle of Dunkirk was being urged by his hostess at a dinner party to describe his experiences. With a shudder he replied: "The noise, my dear! And the people...
...down to a single sentence, it would read, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." In the days of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, The Time of Your Life and My Name Is Aram, Saroyan brought to this simple message an elfin charm, an infectiously wacky humor, and a flavor of childlike sweetness, as if his tales had been stolen from some happily hidden jam pot of life. But of late, the middle-aging (47) pixy of U.S. letters seems to have fallen into the writers' trap Kipling once spotted: "When you know what...
...loud squeal of brakes, which ended in a car-crash on Memorial Drive outside of Winthrop House at 12 p.m. last night, drew a crowd of some 150 students. The accident was not serious, but a riotous humor developed as the crowd began to stop traffic on the Drive...
Stephen Addiss conducted his Suite for Seven Instruments (string quartet, clarinet, flute, and oboe). Dry harmonies and bright melodies pervade the five short movements of this piece. The music is not consistently good, though, and it fails to give the effect of very careful construction. Yet there is humor and originality in certain passages, such as the hoarse Chorale, and the final unorthodox Fugue with its playful theme. The work suffered from the performance, for the strings were not in good tune...