Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down on his Slivovitz, but not his sense of humor, and his eyes still light up at the sight of a pretty woman. His brain works as well as ever. Summing up his long experience, he contrasts the habits of U.S. and European science. "In the U.S.," he says, "we concentrate on 'know-how.' In Europe they work on 'think-how.' Each needs a little of the other's approach...
...good" people can be endured only by hardened John Wayne addicts or by people with a vigorous sense of humor. But the demonic Captain Galdino is one of the great Manichaean figures of the year. And if the cowboy romance is hard to take, it's great fun to see those crazy Latins laughing and singing and killing people...
...about five to nine," Walt Kelly told an orderly crowd of 700 in Sanders Theater last night, "and there just isn't much you can say about humor and its role in international relations...
When they ran out of things to say, the two speakers opened the floor for questions. "I would like to ask Mr. Capp," a student said, "what he regards as the proper role of humor in Cambridge city government." Mr. Capp said that he hoped to remain in Cambridge for a while, but that he thought humor certainly should continue to play a large part in the city government...
...then perhaps one should not take Cocteau's description too seriously since he himself holds very little--and certainly not the Greek legend of Orpheus--as sacred. He uses the story of the Thracian singer as little more than a base on which to build a structure of humor and symbolism and allegory, all deriving their meaning through completely modern references. The result is a curious but somehow still effective blending of the past and the present which left me, at least, always entertained though sometimes wondering just a little what was going...