Word: merriment
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When my laughter subsided after reading your story on doctors' jargon [Jan. 12], I found I had experienced "a series of spasmodic and partly involuntary expirations, with inarticulate vocalization, normally indicative of merriment," as defined in Borland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary...
Threescore years ago, Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton brought forth on Broadway a thoroughly beguiling musical. It retains all of its charm, innocence and naughty-nice merriment in the current David Merrick revival. Theatrically, 1915 must have been a very good year if it produced shows like Very Good Eddie...
Theorem No. 2: The only programs a grownup can possibly stand are those intended for children. Or, more properly, those that cater to those preadolescent fantasies that most have never truly abandoned. The Six Million Dollar Man is a well-established example of this innocent merriment. While the children get off on their superman fantasies, Mom and Pop may mull the sexual problems and possibilities inherent in a creature who is half man, half Timex...
...those responsible for Bug are entirely without resource or a sense of novelty, however grotesque. They contrive, for example, to extend the limits of black humor by turning a scene of a woman being burned to death into a laugh sequence. That this is done inadvertently only increases the merriment...
...killed in a plane crash in Chicago. He worried about "poor Bob" Haldeman, who was "totally selfless and honest and decent" but because of Watergate was "going through the tortures of the damned." There were even attempts at humor, albeit rather heavyhanded. For example, Nixon joined in the merriment on March 22, 1973, when Haldeman joked that "John says he is sorry he sent those burglars in there" and that he was glad