Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S excerpts from this political fantasy did the original (and hence G-Man Hoover) an injustice; for botching the job (and murdering the humor), TIME'S sincere apologies to Mr. Hoover...
Synge has overlaid his peasants' horseplay with his own warm Irish humor. He has taken the pungent speech in which they let themselves go, has both slyly overdresssed it and poetically beautified it, and given it matchless rhythm. The Playboy is something to hear even more than...
...Detroit's Mt. Carmel Hospital, surgeons crowded around operating tables for the show. One of them deftly slit open a patient's abdomen and explored the cavity. In an outburst of surgeon's humor, a colleague boomed: "Now watch him botch it; never fails to mess it up when he tries to show off." (But the operation, a clinic demonstration, was a success.) Amid such scenes, sawbones of 16 nations got together last week for their first international meeting since before...
Last Wednesday, playing before an audience of thirteen passionately interested members of Professor Theodore Spencer's English 23a, a select company of fifteen actors and actor-types handled "Henry IV, Part Two" with much humor and ability. The two hundred students who, unwittingly or not, cut this session at Fogg Auditorium could not have found more pleasant diversion at any of the local movie palaces, or melded any more ammunition for their November hour exam in the solitude of their ivy-cased studies. Peter Temple 1G, directed and played King Henry, with Mendy Weisgal '45 as Justice Shallow, David Hersey...
...writing about Hallowe'en because we think that Hallowe'en, after the vein of humor has been sufficiently worked out, deserves to be taken with a deadly seriousness...