Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience, who after a two dollar admission feel they should laugh at something, are forced to settle for gags. The phony death certificate, mistakenly filled in for the following day, elicits, "Here today, gone tomorrow." One can only hope that the same fate befalls The Wrong...
...Nothing to Laugh At." To friends who urged her to ease up, she replied: "I am the protagonist of women who have nothing to laugh at." She met and fell in love with Sexologist Havelock Ellis, but Ellis was already married. In 1922, she married 3-In-One Oil Company Owner J. Noah H. Slee, after planking down a platform of specific demands to assure her independence: she would continue to call herself Margaret Sanger, she and Slee would occupy separate apartments in the same house, they would even telephone each other to arrange such trifles as having dinner together...
...scene is shrewdly written, strongly performed. Bedford, the only holdover from the Broadway cast, is the perfect mouse-funny when he squeaks, staggering when he roars. Whenever she is onscreen, Actress Sommars matches him laugh for laugh, and Farentino with never a false step leads the spectator to the clear-eyed conclusion of this wise little comedy: people who use people are the loneliest people in the world...
After being snubbed by Carmichael, the white liberal is disoriented--or as Stokely would say he is oriented. The white liberal pipe-dreams--integration and nonviolence--have been busted. The real world comes flooding in. The white liberals laugh when Carmichael laughs at them, they clap when he puts them down, they cheer when he slaps them in the face...
Even under local control, the selection and creation of books that portray minorities realistically are difficult, delicate matters. The happy primer whose Negro, white and Puerto Rican kids always laugh together can be as misleading as portrayals of the ever-grinning slave. Histories that try to make heroes out of such rightfully obscure Negroes as Sojourner Truth, who was merely one of many Negro campaigners against slavery shortly before the Civil War, lose their credibility. Despite these flaws, the long-overdue drive for balanced books has produced texts that are generally more accurate, realistic and engrossing than those that today...