Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time after time, he capped his indictments with the drumbeat cry: "But not Senator Goldwater!" He occasionally switched it to "not the temporary Republican spokesman." The delegates caught the cadence and took up the chant. A quizzical smile spread across Humphrey's face, then turned to a laugh of triumph. Hubert was in fine form. He knew it. The delegates knew it. And no one could deny that Hubert Humphrey would be a formidable political antagonist in the weeks ahead...
...Southern secessionists into an unconditional surrender. At least one foreign power. Great Britain, supported the South. Today you journalists glibly lend your support to Turkish Cypriot secessionists. The American Government gives the impression that it has taken the role of the British of 1861. How the Muses must laugh at us hypocritical mortals...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. A pair of newlyweds clamber five flights to a Manhattan flat to coo, tiff and tousle in a variety of dress and undress. Playwright Neil Simon is a laugh merchant who never runs out of lines...
...Warren Miller, one of the best satirists (Looking for the General) writing in the U.S., has brought the joke off. In this novel about Harlem's first year as a nation, Miller mocks blacks, whites, and the whole racial fuss; yet beneath the hilarity is a clear warning: "Laugh at your peril. It could happen." Writing such a seriocomic novel is a feat of literary acrobatics, but Miller does not lose his balance...
...eccentric as Uncle Remus'. He has also distinguished the different Harlem personality types-his way of saying that Negroes are people, too. And he has managed to show that even the nation's No. 1 problem is good for an occasional laugh...