Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Water Tower. There is bee-stinging humor and zany, zooming fantasy in this new satirical revue by the Second City troupe as it buzzes busily around Cuba, camp counselors and bomb shelter salesmen...
...Kennedy wrote that the Canadian Foreign Service for its size was "probably unequaled by any other nation." A colleague describes Pearson's talents as a negotiator: "He sits down with a person from another country without ingrained hostility or prejudice or superiority. He has a sense of humor that helps...
Mary Perkins possesses a sizeable quantity of the more endearing feminine virtues. In particular, she is a woman of wit: her candor and sense of humor are well known, and tales about her frequently zany remarks are freely exchanged by her admirers. Her frankness, if sometimes embarrassing to her husband, has always made her conversation enjoyable and worth remembering...
...catchy, only careful control of facial expression, action and pacing will make them produce laughter. But the Winthrop House production of this musical is a wonderful show, filled with life, wit, and fun. Director Lewis Kaden, with the help of several fine actors, has exploited every opportunity for humor and warmth...
Died. Alec Templeton, 52. blind Welsh-born concert pianist whose dry sense of humor led him to improvise satires of the old masters (he once fooled London critics into praising his hoked-up version of It Ain't Gonna Rain No More as an unknown work of Mozart), after which he traveled to the U.S. in 1935, where he was such a hit that he stayed to become a citizen in 1941 and the radio idol of 6,000,000 weekly listeners in the days when Jack Benny and the late Fred Allen provided the competition; of cancer...