Word: lightheartedness
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Somewhat against its better judgment, Chapman & Hall, the London publishing house of which Evelyn's father was head, had brought out his first slim, satiric novel, Decline and Fall. It was a lighthearted little tale of moral turpitude about a young Oxonian named Paul Pennyfeather, who became a teacher...
Sir: Your crack, "if the war is staved off long enough," referring to World War III in an article describing guided missiles, is, I hope, not indicative of an editorial state of mind among TIME writers. This type of lighthearted cynicism ... can lead us all directly to destruction Wilmette, Ill...
There was nothing lighthearted about the efforts to save thousands of acres of the rich Fenlands of Norfolk and East Anglia, Britain's main vegetable bin and a major breadbasket. There 3,000 soldiers, hundreds of German prisoners and scores of farmers worked desperately all week to bolster a...
The Cockeyed Miracle (MGM) and Angel on My Shoulder (Charles R. Rogers-United Artists) illustrate Hollywood's rather alarming drift-which may become an out-&-out trend-toward fantasy. Both pictures are lighthearted efforts to examine, with trick camera work, some of the problems of life-after-death.
Martha Gellhorn, with ex-husband Ernest Hemingway and the horrors of war-corresponding behind her, had turned to lighthearted comedy. With ex-Correspondent (Looking for Trouble) Virginia Cowles, the author of The Trouble I've Seen had written a play that London seemed to like-Love Goes to Press...