Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brzezinski's greeting is usually, "Hi, how's life?" His humor is impish; when he was displeased with one Western leader recently, he turned the official's picture to face his office wall and thus "punish him." He can be arrogant, but he tries to defuse touchy situations in public by making self-deprecating remarks. He opened one press conference by declaring, "I will try to respond as best I can or as badly as I will...
...humor salvages their plight. Some of it is sheer vaudevillian antics - Dorothea doing body-wrenching calisthenics in her negligee, the half-deaf Bodey fidding with her hearing aid and trying to camouflage it with an outlandish flower, or Miss Gluck (Barbara Tarbuck), on whom coffee acts as an emetic, rushing to the bathroom to throw up. But more of the comedy springs from Williams' absurdist juxtapositions and mocking putdowns...
Considering the alternative, dying has a lot to recommend it. In recent years screenwriters and playwrights have even found it an unexpected source of dark and cathartic humor. Bernard Slade, the author of the long-running comedy Same Time, Next Year, is the first, however, to write about it as if he were composing humorous jingles for Hallmark cards: "Out but not down...
Gilbert's citation reads: A woman of independent mind and great good humor, a loyal daughter of Radcliffe whose capricious heart goes out to Harvard...
...content with the shaking-up Frankfurter gave us. We were full of the case but not quite prepared for Copey's next staged event. Several weeks later, Copey ushered in Robert C. Benchley (Class of '12), who wrote themes for Copey many years before. Benchley, a great writer of humor, began dead-pan to read from the latest work of Donald Ogden Stewart, a fellow practitioner. In high dudgeon, Copey broke in, and said, "No, no not that. We don't have to hear the words of a Yale man. You know perfectly well why I brought you here. Tell...