Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shock the bourgeois out of their lethargy, and complained when they grew increasingly unshockable. "I have never caused scandal without premeditation," he said. "I deem it indispensable." Eight years ago, this determined, dedicated enfant terrible applied to the stodgy, conservative French Academy. "Since it is now fashionable to laugh at the academy," he said, "I have remained a rebel by joining...
...play shows how prejudice, blind stupidity, and love of convention combine to kill an innocent young man, but it never lets the audience stop laughing. Even when the dead man rises, still wrapped in his shroud, to tell the audience it is going to hell, the viewers laugh and applaud--the threat comes in the form of a jingle. Behan fails to make his audience seem stupid; he merely demonstrates that a clever playwright can confuse his house...
That's the trouble. By loading his play with comic lines and humorous situations, Behan makes his audience laugh confusedly through a tragedy. That they laugh may prove to Behan that they are fools, but to me it proves only that a skilled dramatist can confuse his audience...
...humor isn't always subtle, at least it makes you laugh. Grand Fenwick's prime minister, delivering a fireside chat, destroys his country's television network by sticking his finger through the camera. When the rocket is about to be launched, the Fenwickians interrupt the countdown at four for tea. And so on for an hour and a half. Terry-Thomas, Ron Moody, Roddy McMillan and half a dozen others help Miss Rutherford make Mouse on the Moon a delightful escape...
...this treaty," said Goldwater, who had no intention of doing so, "demand at least this single, honorable, appropriate and meaningful price." Fuming, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield accused Goldwater of seeking "not to build the treaty but to bury it." Besides, added Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright, "the Russians would laugh at us." Barry lost...