Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week picked up the trail of Earth on his first visit to the U.S. and ended up by taking him and his son Markus to an evening more satirical than theological, at Chicago's Second City night club. Barth has never held that it is untheological to laugh...
...words again and again: "Edification, feasible, feeesible, sì? That will be feasible. Good." She has trouble with some names, like Kerrygront and Clargable, and she says Barbara Stan-wich as if it came between slices of bread. She orders "Scotch on the stones" because it still gets the laugh it got when she first made the mistake...
...story to his credit. This play mustn't be a lone effort. It is a wonderful, wonderful cartoon that shows great feeling for both exaggeration and understatement. Satire without ostentatious poignancy, daffiness that doesn't amount to incoherence, Gardner's play is that miracle, a comedy at which people laugh...
...aware that it would be carried over and used at Geneva. How the hell can a thing like this go on? When I found out I was mad enough to do some digging." The Professor, who was born in Alliance, Ohio, sixty-one years ago, has a ready laugh still untainted by cynicism. He knows it seems quixotic for a lone scientist to question the demands which the United States government has made at Geneva, but he has been frustrated for two years in winning a responsive, influential audience. After his fruitless visits to Washington he described...
People listened, understood and got the message. Time magazine arrived at the scene and suddenly satire had become commercial. Everybody was it. "Attack us!" came the cry from the audience across the land, attack our corrupt middle class values. We will laugh as long as you don't make us listen. We will applaud as long as you don't ask us to think...