Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What saves the book from being mere female savagery is Spark's balancing sensitivity to naked human need. Annabel debases herself in a desperate attempt to protect her blameless, hardworking existence. Without sentimentality, the author pities Annabel; the reader can laugh at her but cannot side against...
...English Department." He seems most comfortable when he can play someone else's part. He has a talent for doing voices and a heavy, mobile face that suggests the prosperous Dutchman who sat for Haals. In the language of the old screen comedians, his imitations produce the boffo--the laugh that kills. He usually delivers the lines sitting down, leaning forward over the table or desk. He moves the corner of his lip up toward his car, smooths the thinning, grayish hair from the high forehead and takes the student's part...
...Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In gets the majority of its audience from the 12-to-18-year-olds? You have to be kidding. I've just bought 40 of their shows. We started screening them a month ago. Everyone is delighted. Now I've got to tell them they've been watching a teen-age show? I could get fired for this...
...Your enthusiastic exhortations on the "anything goes" theory espoused by Rowan and Martin sums up nicely why Laugh-In is withheld from our five growing children. I won't have my family growing up thinking that it's cute to knock everything, and that they can buy a laugh with smut, double-entendres, or by making household words out of vulgar expressions...
...about the destruction of three innocent if malleable youths: but instead of waiting for the three to be perverted by the Duke and his court, from the outset and in a heavy-handed way he anticipates their final downfall. Everything is hung with doom so that we can neither laugh at their innocence, which is moribund, nor being newcomers to the play ourselves, comprehend their suffering...