Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit, mobilizes undergraduate humor and surrealistic props to launch a hilariously bizarre offensive against poor...
Young Turks of off-Broadway's lively decade have given the theatrical scene, including Shubert Alley's fearful fat cats, a healthy and creative shaking-up. Off-Broadway fostered the fresh and uninhibited talents of such playwrights as Edward Albee (The American Dream), Jack Richardson (Gallows Humor), Jack Gelber (The Connection) and Arthur Kopit (Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad). Such playwrights as Shaw, Ibsen, Chekhov, Moliere, Pirandello and O'Casey -all banished from Broadway on the not unlikely ground that there...
...quietly desperate air of a man who has dealt with unceasing pressures for so long that a sudden letup would give him a bad case of the bureaucratic bends. But as his fun-filled, detail-packed little canvases show, this worried air conceals an indestructible sense of humor. He started his artistic life as a muralist's assistant, later became an adequate commercial artist and illustrator, then dabbled a bit in abstractionism. But he had to give it up: "It's awfully hard to get a touch of humor in an abstraction, and I can't keep...
According to Pudding officers, she was chosen for their annual award because of "an extraordinarily high degree of acting ability, a sparkling personality, and a genuine, lively sense of humor...
...Realist styles itself "the fire hydrant of the underdog," and runs satiric articles on current affairs. The issue in question contained an article by George Lincoln Rockwell, commander of the American Nazi Party, a number of jokes and cartoons, many directed against Roman Catholics, and some off-color humor...