Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Mountbatten could not laugh at the threat. He had to hustle...
...that there was a gallop of royal words. The interpreter spoke: "The King says that the Colonel misunderstands. The King says that to look is good but to laugh is bad. He only wants the soldiers to stop laughing...
...huge beaked nose and the manners of a country bumpkin, he wandered about the streets of 19th-Century Vienna pathetically anxious to find anybody who liked his long, earnest, rather complicated symphonies. Practically nobody did. His contemporary, Johannes Brahms, hooted: "Bruckner's works immortal? It makes me laugh." Richard Wagner, whom Bruckner admired tremendously, considered him a bonehead and avoided his company. Few of his important works were published until the last years of his life...
There is just one reservation to all this praise for the show at the Colonial: go to it willing to laugh. The play is a comedy and, like much of James Thurber's work, cannot be taken seriously. But, after the laughter and the mirth, remember it in seriousness, for it represents a condemnation of American middle-class life almost as damaging as that of Thurber. It isn't as bitter or as obvious, but it's there just the same...
Tell him he'll want to laugh...