Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joke on Coates is that he knows his Austen far too well. He keeps trying to steer the characters in The Watsons in "original" directions, for fear they will grow too like the characters in other Austen novels-until honest imitation melts into irresistible parody. It all goes to show the difficulties confronting an author who has been raised in the world of Thurber, Waugh and Ivy Compton-Burnett and must yet deal deadpan with ploys (such as swoons and blushes) of which he has had no experience...
...burps and stumbles common in Shakespearean slapstick (or at least allows them a free hand in this respect), they never seem coarse or even very vigorous. The basis of the comic subplot is the duping of Malvolio, the puritanical steward, by a group of cheerful tosspots--a little joke which has occasionally struck critics as cruel, since Malvolio is at one point chained in a dungeon as a madman. Before Mr. Heeley's backcloth, under Mr. Benthall's guidance, it appears a mild, if merry, escapade, instinct with finesse...
Electronic Future. Scherchen is as famed for stinginess as for temperament: friends joke that he planned the birth of his four younger children in England (he has a total of eight children by three wives) to take advantage of the National Health Service. One of Scherchen's passions away from the podium is experimenting with "everything that conserves sound"; at his home at Gravesano, Switzerland, he has built what he regards as "the most advanced electracoustically experimental studios in the world." Recently he has developed a "stereophoner," an electronic device that gives the illusion of stereophonic sound to monaural...
...goes: glamor, elevators, refrigerators, silence--anything you name is somebody's reason for going, somebody's reason for not going. "I really don't care what they do, it was just a joke to apply anyway...
...Joke or not, Bullitt seems to be enjoying it. And come January the rat-race will end, amid the cheers and the groans. Meanwhile on our way to classes we can pause for a moment by the workmen's fire and watch the building battle with the elements. It's a good way to warm...