Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit, mobilizes college humor and surrealistic props to launch a bizarre offensive against poor Mom. As a girl with a yen for Mama's boy, Barbara Harris ranges from clowning grotesquerie to candied simpering to erotic voracity, with unflawed skill...
...angry denunciation of Soviet antiSemitism. Into a flowing dirge, chanted in solo and choral recitation. Shosta kovich pours rafter-shaking eruptions of drums and orchestra, recapturing his old, uninhibited enthusiasm for color and excitement, rekindling the fire of Evtushenko's poem. The second movement is based on "Humor," a poem that makes the point that tyrants cannot imprison laughter, and the music - perfectly in the spirit of things - becomes impish, light and gay. The third movement, on a poem about a lonely young girl, is softly lyrical. The fourth movement, on Evtushenko's "Fears" (about the panicky Stalinist...
...appointed for life; Editor Lazar Fogelman, who has been with the paper since 1927, is 71; Business Manager Adolph Held is 77; Literary Critic Harry Rogoff is 80. In a period of instant cookery, the Forward instructs its readership on the fermentation of wine. Space is still reserved for humor of a high Jewish flavor: "Sam: There is nothing better than to lie in bed in the morning and ring for a servant. Jonah: But you have no servant. Sam: But a bell...
...office Townsend is a brusque, blunt executive who would rather duck into a man's office for a talk than use the telephone. With Townsend, says one hardworking Chrysler official, "the needle is always out?but always in good humor." Says Chairman George Love: "He has the rare capacity to persuade his associates to express opinions contrary to his own." Adds Love of his own relationship with Townsend: "Let's say Townsend has an uncle?an uncle with some experience m managing a pretty tough coal business. This uncle is looking over his nephew's shoulder because the uncle...
...Imagine James Bond rejecting a dish like that!) Buchan dealt in other literary coinage-glints of dry Scots humor, an eloquent fondness for the British countryside, the straightforward invocation of courage and comradeship in danger. The face on the coin is Victorian, but it rings true...