Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, at a remove, you write about it." Although this approach combines elements of history, sociology, and even of fiction, its main ingredient is personal involvement. "It is a very good occupation for the right hand, assuming poetry is written with the left," Reid interjected with characteristic good humor...
...style has disturbing weaknesses. He is impossibly bad at reproducing dialogue, either Negro or white. Nor does his eye for detail, his feeling for character or his sense of humor quite do the experience justice. The reader is never quite brought inside the world Griffin is describing...
...impression of having been created by a slightly dotty humorist. They cavort and prance, leap and fly, as if under the spell of a pleasantly chaotic orchestra. At times the rhythms become so frenetic that the small figures look as if they might shake themselves apart. Yet the surface humor quickly peels away to reveal more serious intentions underneath. Underwood's sculptures are expressions of ideas, some of which he transforms into dances of joy and some into gestures of despair...
Leacock's invention permits the photographer to shoot synch-sound with an easily portable system. It allowed Drasin to move into the heart of the riot and capture devastating close-ups and unguarded remarks at the height of the furor. His talent for composition, his sense of humor and his feeling for spontaneous drama all belie his youth and comparative inexperience. Unfortunately, Sunday will play for only two more days, and I have only enough space to recommend it highly and urge you to force the Brattle into extending Sunday's run by the onslaught of your numbers...
Night Life, by Sidney Kingsley, contends that people are selling their souls for a mess of pottage, which the playwright exchanges for a pot of message. Having bemoaned the decline of love, honor, courage, idealism and even healthy humor, a leading character announces, "The poets have given up on mankind...