Word: humouring
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...AUTHORITARIANISM. Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency. To attempt to terrify them, serves only to irritate their bad humour, and to confirm them in an opposition which more gentle usage might easily induce them . . . to lay aside...
Ernst Kitzinger, Porter University Professor and a close friend and colleagues of Rowland, yesterday called him "a fundamentally upright and decent person with an entertaining deadpan sense of humour." He added that Rowland was "a devoted teacher," who, because of his diverse areas of expertise, is "totally irreplaceable to the department...
...French, which two of the three of us spoke adequately. Vallieres's voice was calm, conveying intellectuality without arrogance, and combined with a sense of humility and humanity. The interview printed below indicates the clarity with which Pierre presents his analysis. What it does not adequately reveal is the humour in his nuances, nor the moving impression left with us of his courage...
...than 50 participants are expected to show up for registration which will begin at 1 p.m. The contestants will be separated into three classes again this year: Class 1 being ten-speed bikes. Class 2 being composed of three speeders, and Class 3 encompassing anything from unicycles to Good Humour trucks...
...resorting to the gratuitous flashiness of a Norman Jewison work). The jokes provided in the Ustinov-Ira Walach screenplay are unfailingly gentle, and, in the case of some bits involving Robert Morley and Casar Romero, quite funny. What the film lacks in physical beauty and glamour, it replaces with humour and heart. I'll take two inarticulate bumblers falling in love while their dinner burns over two rich sex-symbol thieves any day in the week...