Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always been able to suppress. A.L. Levine thinks like no politician you've ever come across: idealistic but with the practical sense to attain his vision, knowing his limits, and not trying to hide his ugliness but instead turning it to the good. And always guarding a sense of humor, laughing at himself as easily as anyone could. A fantasy, perhaps, but an endearing...
...Levine is not a cardboard man; he snatches up all the stereotypes in himself and twists them, turns them around, shatters them as any real person does just by living, and lets them color his life without defining it. He has a Jewish outlook, a Jewish sense of humor--some of which, as a confirmed goy, I could not comprehend--a Jewish pride, and yet he remains a universal character. To Levine, as to Halberstam, ethnicity and personal background are important parts of life, and learning to cope with them--when to use them as a form of instinct...
...family. He is the devoted father of two children, a son, 11, and a daughter, 7. His wife Jane, to whom he has been married for 13 years, often accompanies him to scientific meetings, where he inevitably draws a crowd. He also retains an impish sense of humor. He once offered to send Caltech's Kip Thorne a year's subscription to Penthouse if Cygnus X-l turns out not to be a black hole...
Just days before the Cardinals began to choose the new Pope, an NBC newsman in Rome telephoned Venice's Albino Cardinal Luciani to ask for some biographical background. With self-effacing humor, Luciani observed: "There is a Class A list of candidates, a Class B list of candidates, and a Class C list of candidates. I am surely on the Class C list." His fellow Cardinals, obviously disagreeing, last week moved Albino Luciani to the head of the class...
DIED. John Fischer, 68, gentlemanly editor of Harper's magazine from 1953 to 1967; of complications following surgery; in New Haven, Conn. Fischer imbued Harper's with graceful, intelligent prose and humor. He became known for encouraging writers and for the cool reason of his column, "The Easy Chair...