Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having just returned from my first trip to Europe, I was excited by your story on the large number of Americans vacationing overseas [July 25]. The hassle of travel is part of the fun. It also helps to keep your sense of humor. Nevertheless, I found the people friendly, the countries beautiful and the guides knowledgeable. I cannot wait to go back...
Frances C.M. Donovan '28, a student at Radcliffe during Cronkhite's term as dean, remembers the administrator as "extremely thoughtful and kindly to individual students." A warm woman with a good sense of humor, Cronkhite took a personal interest in her students, Donovan added...
Some of the humor is unnecessary and tasteless, such as when Blacks in a St. Louis ghetto steal the station wagon's hubcaps while Chase asks for directions, or when the teenage daughter of some ridiculously hick relative brags that daddy says she is the best french kisser. These stereotypical characterizations--while occasionally funny in the racist, sexist world of the National Lampoon magazine--are completely gratuitous in a movie of this type...
...fleshpots and spas. Oldfashioned, with an unabashed dollop of modest sexism (the text refers to Fielding's wife as "my Nancy"), it is written in a style once aptly described as "Rotarian baroque" and infused with a crusader's zeal. Occasionally, there is a pawky sense of humor at work: of Claridge's hotel in London, Fielding observes, "Finding space will be the problem, since it is inhabited by client legacies that go back to the time of the Picts." Designed for a vanishing clientele-the affluent, ignorant American-Fielding's could stand revision in tone...
...special quality of Richard is not his glacial cruelty or that he has some half a dozen people butchered to achieve the crown but that his mere presence instills fear in all, generates a nervous electric tension with every crooked step. Even his broad streak of sardonic humor (said to be shared by Stalin) is chilling...