Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mushroom & the Pearl. Each country has a name for its hovels- in Chile they are callampas (mushrooms) because they sprout so fast; in Argentina, villas miserias (misery towns). The names reflect the inhabitants' pitiable hope or bitter humor. In Lima, one of the worst is wryly called Perla del Sol, meaning Pearl of the Sun. Defacing Rio's beautiful mountainsides are slums so flimsy that they periodically collapse in the rain and slide like an avalanche to the bottom...
...This," said the voice on the telephone, "is Roger Blough. the man you've been reading about." Thus, with a humor rare in him, U.S. Steel's board chairman last week arranged for another appointment with President Kennedy-and he found the President a gracious victor...
...shape myself to what you have written. But don't write a part for me." Sellers won his early popularity doing impersonations on the radio. He soon formed the celebrated Goon Show with two others and proved that even the BBC had room for the humor of the imagination gone mad. For example, the three climbed Mount Everest from the inside...
Volume 1, Number One of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gargoyle has arrived, you happy humor-loving Harvards...
...drama in miniature. The alternately anguished and tender dialogue of Herr, was traegt der Boden hier, the elaborate pathos of Bedeckt mich mis Bluemen, were projected with mastery; no less remarkable--for Schwarzkopf dearly loves a song in which she can be girlish and winning--was the sly humor of In dem Schatten meiner Locken ("In the shadow of my tresses, my lover fell asleep"), where the phrase "Weck'ich ihn nun auf? Ach nein!" ("Shall I wake him? Ah no"), repeated three times, was first coy, then a bit reproachful, and finally just the merest sigh of content...