Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moments of pain, a man may laugh, and in a desperate situation, he may take refuge from his grief in humor. In British Playwright Peter Nichols' comedy, Albert Finney and Zena Walker bounce from sadness to clowning and back again as the parents of a child described as a "wegetable...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. The protagonists of Tom Stoppard's ironic vehicle are the kind of men to whom life is like musical chairs and they the losers left without a seat. But they lose with such humor and verve that the spectators, while empathizing, enjoy the game...
...power in 1956, that the trend toward intellectual freedom in Eastern Europe really began. In the days following the popular uprising that installed Gomulka, Warsaw's stage bloomed with avant-garde theater-the existentialism of Sartre, the absurdism of Beckett and a home-grown brand of vicious gallows humor. Recently, however, while an aging and suspicious government tolerates less free discussion at home, the Poles have watched in frustration while non conformity flourishes among such neighbors as Czechoslovakia...
...there is a growing boredom, if not dissatisfaction, with the regime. With only 1,860,000 members, Poland's Communist Party is now proportionately one of the smallest ruling Communist parties in the world. Naturally, the party's malaise tends to become the butt of the very humor that the regime fears and seeks to ban. As a joke making the rounds in Warsaw last week had it, a popularity poll of top Polish leaders is now impossible. Reason: no one remembers who they are any more. The government was not laughing at that one, either, but there...
...California Entrepreneur Norton Simon, who controls 34% of Canada Dry through his Hunt Foods & Industries, wooed Mahoney away from the $160,000-a-year executive-vice-presidency of Colgate-Palmolive. A veteran of package-goods wars at Colgate, at advertising agencies (his own and Ruthrauff & Ryan) and at Good Humor Corp. (where he had been president), Mahoney, 44, proved to be a dash of effervescence. By paring administrative overhead and closing two of the company's 16 bottling plants, he cut $1,500,000 a year from operating costs. To pep up promotion, he hired two new ad agencies...