Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Weathermen had severely limited their choice of weapons. Their actions seemed curiously gentle compared to the logic and imagination of the press. To a rational world they were defenseless in more ways than one. Guns were not in their arsenal and neither could they muster a sense of humor...
...shrewd manipulator of money and power is that he really likes to have a good time. He is not at all hung up by his professional role. He is not personally mean, despite what he may do in public. He is a hedonist with a mischievous sense of humor and fun: his bedroom is filled with toys and knick-knacks and a huge mirror is hung under the canopy...
...PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY. Playwright Charles Gordone, aided by a skillful cast, examines the fabric of black-white and black-black relationships with uninhibited fury-and unexpected humor...
...start, Ginsberg shows a flicker of humor-which is more than can be said for his actors. When Joe (Rip Torn) tells a masochistic nymph that "there are only two or three ways," she volunteers brightly: "I could talk to a friend on the phone while you're doing it to me." Joe mulls it over. "About what?" he asks...
WHICH MIGHT all be very fine, if one didn't also have to read the damn thing. For when epics grow out of the Oral Stage, they lose something of their amiability. Bored has a distressing habit of repeating again and again the perverse patterns on which its humor depends. Every paragraph is sure to mention at least one refugee from a Medieval Bestiary, along with two unrelated brand names...