Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Musicals are often the bane and sometimes the boon of Broadway's existence. The coursing humor of Abe Burrows and the kinetic energy of Robert Morse's performance help to make How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying one of those rare musicomedy triumphs of form over formula. The belly laugh is the convulsive vogue at A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, where Zero Mostel, lewdly assisted by clowns and houris, is pillaging the comic genius of Plautus to vulgar and insane perfection...
...training of the officers under whom I was fortunate enough to serve. Men like Stephen D. Martin, who had the job of making schoolboys into soldiers and did it without foolishly trying to make basic training equivalent to military school; men with enough sense of humor to distinguish between the serious demands of that training and some of its more trivial side effects. Men like Charles L. Ricks, one of the 696 Aggies killed in World War II, who lives in my memory as the finest field grade officer I ever knew. A man who was as willing...
Thank God, a winner at last. No clap-trap in this one, no humbug and no humdrum inanities. The lean years are over (briefly, at any rate); and good theatre, entertaining entertainment, intelligent humor and everything that's good have returned to the Boston stage. After which quotable phrases it is my duty to tell you that Beyond the Fringe, which opened at the Colonial Theatre night before last, is beyond doubt the cleverest and best piece of theatre that will come anywhere near Boston this year. I laughed my fool head...
...Shakespeare, and sundry other subjects of similar import and relevance to modern existence. The tone is radical and very youthful (although not doctrinaire in any way--probably the nearest thing to a party label that could be pinned on Messrs. Miller et al. would be Far Out Liberal); the humor is echt British, but not unpleasantly so: an ingenious mixture of the ridiculous, the outrageous, the scathing, and the genial...
...future fear, but in present dissatisfaction that Hughes finds material for an Issue. He finds himself emphasizing not the holocaust tomorrow, but the frozen economy today, the society losing its mercy and perspective and sense of humor, the cold-war trade-and-aid policies that make the well-being of American workers at home, and the fight for democracy abroad, secondary to fleeting cold-war alliances and advantages...