Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freud could be charming. His penetrating, attentive eyes inspired confidence. Relatively short (5 ft. 7 in.), and slight, he was unaffected and simple in demeanor. Not literally a wit, he had a lively sense of humor, and often threw his head back and laughed softly in a way that impressed...
Jacques Tati is a tall, gangling Frenchman who moves like a badly-controlled marionette and possesses a real talent for taking pitfalls with the least possible grace. A veteran of the music halls, Tati practices a kind of humor which is not at all subtle, Gallic, or witty, but still enormously funny...
When the Harvard Freshman Dramatic Club settles down and has a good time with Twelfth Night, it has a very good time indeed. Some parts of the show, however, take life too seriously, and there is evidence of over-direction. In the raucous, low humor, when the players are spontaneous and fresh, Twelfth Night is very funny; when the resolution of its many complications unfolds, it tends to be strained and reaching for something which isn't there...
...headed doll who hides the murder of her child underneath an appearance of innocence, she can contribute only a sort of statusque intensity. But she tries hard, and at some moments brings her role to life. The only other member of the cast, John Mautner, manages to get some humor into his portrayal of an attendant in hell. Much of the success of all these actors can be credited to director Jay Shuchter, who also prevented the small size of the stage from creating a feeling of claustrophobia...
With summer on the way, Good Humor Co. of Calif, reported that it cannot find enough drivers to man its bell-ringing trucks. The report, and dozens like it, led economists for Manhattan's austere First National City Bank to an interesting speculation: "If we had figures on unfilled job requisitions, it is possible that they would show that there are more unfilled jobs than persons unemployed." And that, points out National City, "is a condition of 'overemployment...