Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cocktail party the first afternoon, Pearson brought down the roof by quipping, when an aide handed him a memo, "Mr. President, I've just found this piece of paper lying around. I'd better check to make sure there are no marginal notes on it."* Humor and good fellowship filled the room, and Pearson moved easily among the reporters, exchanging jokes and talking about baseball. "Well," he said, "I used to be in the opposition...
...ecstasy and reverence. Yet Man Ray wanted fame as a painter, not as a photographer or constructor, and he spent decades trying to win it. The current exhibition of his paintings at Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery shows that his very genius-his gifts of invention and humor-barred him from be coming an artist of serious value. Over the years, Ray adopted whatever ism was the going one at the time, adding to each a fast-growing repertory of stock techniques: the placement of the curious (whether an object, texture or color) next to the ordinary, the abrupt...
...Maxwell has paced Feydeau's farce at a breathtaking rate--so fast, in fact, that the actors sometimes sound like a long-playing record at 45 rpm. But the speed is necessary to preserve the absurdity and humor of the script...
...which seems quite inappropriate to her sins, the supposed point of it all. At the same time, when she appears, surrounded by suitors, it is always to the same cheery dance tune which first accompanied the banter of the two monks. Because Perera's popular melodies and Cole's humor fail to guide the opera's ideas and dramatic progression (as such devices do well in West Side Story), the product...
There are those, like Moliere, Cervantes, Twain and Thurber, who assert their position against the world humorously?for everyone can laugh, but only individuals have humor. There are the explorers, discoverers and obsessive questioners; their individuality is not necessarily greater because they chose to die, like Socrates, or smaller because they saved their necks, like Galileo. There are the obscure men who, by an accident of history, are forced to develop individuality or at least strength, like Emperor Claudius and Harry Truman. There are, above all, the unremembered and unknown individuals who take their stand and suffer their small martyrdoms...