Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, at an alfresco press conference, he refused comment about the Southern revolt. Did he want to talk about his own candidacy? The President said he had been too darned busy to think about it. He joined in the laughter which followed...
...mourning Papa's death into welcoming it, had always seemed pretty trivial. But last week they also seemed pretty trashy, and not much fun. Only Red Peppers, an onstage-backstage-onstage chronicle of a pair of bickering, third-rate British hoofers, retained any real life or laughter...
...philosopher of 60 letting Eve, aged 19, tell him about the apple!"); and Father Foley, a tragic figure who finds himself in love with a woman ("He sat by the fire wondering what his own life might have been with a girl like that, all furs and scents and laughter...
...being slow-witted, reached in my pocket and handed him one," said Poindexter. Prosser then pocketed the bill, "sat back, looked smug, and smiled," and the whole class burst into laughter...
There is no denying, however, that certain sections of the play seem somewhat antique. The first act in particular, with part of the second, provokes only a mild and intellectual laughter which leaves on feeling rather distant. Later on things warm up, and the witticisms and the fine, original characters spread richly about make the play definitely worthwhile. In this superlative production it certainly ought not to be missed...