Word: mirth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wayne, as usual, magnificent. As Brother Juniper, he is gay and wistful, pleading and commanding, mute and eloquent. He has the gift of changing the audience's mood from mirth to melancholy by altering the tone of his voice. And his stage presence is remarkable; his one or two fluffs sounded almost like part of the script, and he steadied a wavering child actor without missing a line...
Force That Exists. In a sense the restraint aspect of Admiral Holloway's mission got more punditry last week-not to mention frustration, sneers, even mirth-than the greater fact of Admiral Holloway's great strength. But in a week of mixed-up and shifting developments in Washington, Moscow, the Middle East and the U.N., it was Admiral Holloway's show of force-restrained, not brandished-that was the single most important point about the whole Middle East can-of-worms crisis, simply because the force was there...
...contract), announced he was switching to Channel 9, which he had only days before characterized as "the Skid Row channel." On his last KCOP shows he laid into KCOP lustily: "I am in a stream of very bad consciousness. Wherefore of late I have lost my mirth, to quote General Trujillo, I want to express my appreciation for the lack of cooperation, the lack of consideration, the lack of even primitive facilities, which have made a man out of me." Commented Station Manager Al Flanagan shortly: "We survived Liberace's departure...
Full of Life. A sort of delivery-room comedy, maybe a little too sentimental, but Judy Holliday gives vigorous mirth to the maybe (TIME...
...Mirth seemed inappropriate; the nation turned to anger. The Government, always an available whipping-boy, again bent over to receive the lash. Righteous indignation rose to the occasion. Scientists, soldiers, journalists, and cracker-barrel sages fired their salvos at the nearest targets. Though the smoke hasn't yet lifted, it isn't difficult to see that the army has been fighting only itself...