Word: lightheartedness
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When he wrote To Katanga and Back, the story of his six months in the Congo, various U.N. officials argued that he had no right to tell his story, which they felt was biased anyway. He was pictured as a guilty victim bent on self-justification. But O'Brien seems...
The Stevenson Wit, which Adler thought up shortly before Adlai Stevenson died, reminds readers that Stevenson was a singularly lighthearted and amusing man. There is, for example, his rallying call during the 1952 presidential campaign: "Eggheads unite-you have nothing to lose but your yolks!" Not to mention his wry...
GENERATION. The battle between age groups is second only to the battle of the sexes as the stuff of which life and plays are made. William Goodhart makes it laughing matter in a lighthearted comedy about a doting father (Henry Fonda) who finds his daughter and her nonconformist husband living...
Burton Lane's songs are lighthearted and lyrical, very much in keeping with the strange whimsy of this show. The title song gets caught in Louis Jourdan's throat and could profitably be eliminated, but the ballad "Melinda" lingers nicely. Once back in the days of yore, the Rabelasian dance...
Politics captured the attention of some of the freshmen, but most were given to more lighthearted pursuits. In the Spring of 1937, for instance, 1500 students attended a hoax lecture on birth control. The biggest lark of the season, though, was the riot. It started innocently enough one May evening...