Word: humorousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mere threat of publicity proved enough. Reporter was put back on the newsstands. The parliamentary cultural committee added its salute to defiant journalism by adopting a resolution specifically commending the Czechoslovak radio for its dramatic invasion broadcasts. And as always, the spirit of resistance found voice in wry Czechoslovak humor, notably in a cartoon that took a poke at all the new "temporary" Soviet-dictated restrictions. It shows one man winding up to punch another and explaining: "I am going to belt you in the mouth temporarily...
...threatens them, they angrily announce that black is not only beautiful but necessary, smear him with black paint and begin advancing, tarbrushes in hand, on the audience. Playwright Israel Horovitz thoroughly comprehends Freud's dictum that laughter is a release from tension. With fusillades of obscenities and insult humor, he keeps the audience too jittery and hysterical to realize that they have only been watching an intellectual Don Rickles...
...enjoy the last living 5? shoeshine, done with real champagne." Minneapolis' Cork & Fork follows each listing with an entry like "Lionel Barrymore, on one of his many visits to the Cork & Fork before it was opened, was once heard to remark, in his off-the-cuff style of humor: 'Say, this is good.' " And the menu of San Francisco's Señor Pico describes one bestseller (beef stew) with this line: "It's a real son of a bitch...
...December 1965, Borman and Lovell were pilots of Gemini 7 on man's longest space flight - a 3301-hours' orbital mission that included the history-making rendezvous with Gemini 6. Both took their long confinement in the cramped spacecraft with equanimity and quiet humor, and displayed competence and stability that helped win them their Apollo 8 assignments. Eleven months later, Lovell .and Edwin Aldrin were the crew on the 941-hour flight of Gemini 12, the last U.S. manned flight before Apollo 7. Between them, Lovell and Borman have a total of 7551 hours in space, about...
...have made a number of bold choices, and most of them have paid off. Notable in this regard are Paul Fry's simple modular settings, which combine function with a sort of determined elegance rare to house stages. Equally significant is Mr. Bloch's decision to emphasize the inherent humor of line and situation, and to use a liberal hand in devising comic business. Although occasionally subtle antics which animate the human background throughout the evening distract from more important actions, the general effect is one of rich detail, and this must be judged a special pleasure while Harvard theater...