Word: jocularly
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...unmaking had its unbeginning when elegantly eloquent Conservative William F. Buckley Jr. got to thinking seriously about one of his "semi-jocular" newspaper columns, in which he had "vouchsafed a paradigmatic platform, theoretically useful in any large-size American city." From there, it was no more than a few thousand syllables into the 1965 New York mayoralty campaign as the Conservative Party contestant against Republican-Liberal John V. Lindsay and Democrat Abraham Beame...
...bill and leaves "hairs stuck around on the soap." Norwood makes a deal with Grady Fring the Kredit King to drive an Olds 98 to New York, expenses paid and $50 clear. Fortified by a bottle of NuGrape and a nickel pack of Nabs, he sets out on a jocular junket that confronts him with the second shortest midget in show business, a hypnotized chicken, his future wife, and a climactic offer of employment as "night man at the worm ranch." If this is vaudeville, it is vaudeville with a vengeance. In a dry, wry Arkansas accent, Portis gently tells...
...looked like the anatomy of a murder after the fracas last month in Manhattan's "21" Club. Director Otto Preminger, 59, got smashed on the pate with a goblet by Literary Agent Irving Lazar during a jocular little chat about who should have the movie rights to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Preminger lost the battle (49 stitches) and the book (sold to Director Richard Brooks for more than $500,000), but now he's feeling better. Just before he stalked into New York City Criminal Court to charge Lazar with felonious assault, Preminger acquired...
...from two plays. "Treason at West Point" by James Culpepper, the Phyllis Anderson Award Play of 1965, bears a rather disconcerting resemblance to Shaw's "Devils Disciple," and perhaps for that reason it makes entertaining reading. The two scenes printed in the Advocate bristle a bit too thickly with jocular repartee, and they race like a mounted Paul Revere--outdistancing, at times, his characters' motives for acting as they do. Culpepper's play is all animation and exclamation unwilling to sit still long enough to attend to subtle character studies...
...Cream & Corn. Presiding over all this fun and fanfare is Richard Fargo Brown, at 48 one of the younger major U.S. museum directors, and a man who, in a young city that thrives on cultural imbroglios, thrives on his wit and wisdom. A jocular scholar who is apt to bump into trustees with a chocolate ice cream cone in his hand, Brown is an artist's son and a Bucknell University scholarship student (he was a four-letter man in high school) who got an M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard, then perfected his taste with five years...