Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper his patriotism, Texas' John Tower his warmth, good humor, good counsel and advice...
...then Democrats - and in an election year at that - followed with an outpouring that climaxed when Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, in terms of glowing rhetoric, managed to out-Dirksen Dirksen. If, said Mansfield, he were only possessed of Dirksen's "wit and wisdom," "humor and poetry," "scholarly erudition and home spun simplicity," then would he "unleash them in orchestrated expression of the great affection, respect, admiration and esteem in which I hold the distinguished minority leader. I would weave with words a magic spell over the Senate as he has done so many times. With words, I would lift...
...Times, overt display of a sense of humor provokes the sort of suspicion a sex deviate can expect at a policemen's ball." Thus New York Timesman Russell Baker, 36, once explained why he covered Washington with appropriate solemnity. In time, the solemn rounds began to pall; Baker was about to join another paper when the Times suddenly gave him a chance to stray. By last week, calling himself "Observer," Baker was solidly ensconced as the Times's editorial-page satirist...
...sisters and I were so pleased with your article, "Lost Chords" [Aug. 31]. We have watched for many years Mrs. Mary Doehler overcome many problems with courage, intelligence and humor, and we have seen her continuing success in her esophageal speech training...
Gangster Manqué. When Miller keeps his voice (and his vice) down to a low howl, the book is good. Gentle accounts of his tailor father and his simple-minded sister are touched with skill, restraint and humor. More than the ranting, they help explain the near-psychopathic, angry compassion Miller felt for the sufferers in the suffocating world of Myrtle Avenue and Delancey Street. In a man more vicious, this anger might have made a gangster. In a man more conventional, it might have led to the kind of ambition that drove so many slum children to escape...