Word: merriment
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...almost certainly is Neher's. Three cheers for his efforts and those of his cast. Together they have reined in the lavish aura of the play to craft a drama of some depth and wisdom. The small cast fills the equally small stage with a bewitching blend of merriment, music, and bittersweet lessons...
...they cannot rid themselves of guilt if they remand her to the unloving custody of the state. Yet, mercifully to audiences, the story is not their sorrow but their admirable if cockeyed determination to cope. They face their nearly intolerable burdens with a giddy, all-mocking humor, a pretend merriment that at times becomes infectiously real...
Dotson Rader, who is seen embracing Williams on the back cover of Cry of the Heart, was a close companion in the playwright's declining years. Unlike Spoto, he evokes the winsome qualities of Williams' naughtiness and ructions, the merriment as well as the anguish of that time. Rader's reminiscences are if anything raunchier and more explicit than Williams' own, and without footnotes or explanation of sources, some of his anecdotes about the peccadilloes of the famous seem too bad to be true. Beguiling as gossip, Rader's book has none of the inclusiveness or gravamen of Spoto...
With all that translating, praying and donning of sober habit, students during Harvard's second century had little time for merriment. Fortunately, it was prohibited...
Restricting merriment outside of academia did not make Johnny a dull boy. Indeed, administrators had a very optimistic outlook on academic exercises that many students now consider drudgery...