Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...away. Then the Marquesa's next youngest child, María del Mar. handed her mother a tiny box. As the last bit of gift wrapping was torn away, out popped a squeaky, spring-powered mouse, bringing a cry of shocked surprise from the Marquesa and a loud laugh from proud Grandpa Franco...
...Negro children. Aided by the Ford Foundation-financed Great Cities School Improvement Program, the books are the work of four Detroit educators who analyzed slum tots' talk, concluded that they need short primers with fewer words, more drama and humor. The books-Fun with David, Play with Jimmy, Laugh with Larry-do not improve on the much criticized run-Spot-run style of older primers. But now most of the faces are brown,"kitty" replaces "pony," David makes mud pies on the front stoop, Mother hangs the wash on the clothesline, and a friendly white kid named Larry comes...
...treat, the samurai assists the slaughter until, hilariously or horribly, everybody has eliminated everybody. With a grunt of solid satisfaction, the hero survevs the vacant village and declares: "Now we'll have a little quiet in this town." At this point, many customers will be wondering whether to laugh or scream. On second thoughts, most of them will decide to scream. Taken entire, Yojimbo is an appalling assault on the human animal and all his works. Of the scores of characters in the film, only five can pretend to be human beings. What's more, three...
will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom . . . then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis Cummings' heart-for-heart's-sake view's were, and are, intellectually unfashionable -not to mention untenable-in today's world. Modern poets usually come armed with shields of sinewy realism or are modishly cloaked in intellectual complexity...
Author-Ellin, an accomplished mystery writer now trying to go straight, had the makings of a good suspense yarn. But by locking himself into such pretentious symbolism, he begs to be taken seriously. And taken seriously he is a laugh. Ben Smith is not salvageable on any terms. The new freedom he is supposed to find in art dealing is merely a change of directors. When Dealer Klebenau runs out of money, he will no doubt con poor Smith into stealing the Mona Lisa-for art's sake, of course...