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Word: mirth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAZA SUITE. If hotel walls had ears-and Neil Simon's comic prowess-they might tell tales as mirth-provoking as these three one-act plays. Directed by Mike Nichols, Suite manages to exercise the funny bone while keeping a sympathetic finger on the human pulse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 15, 1968 | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...result in a corrosive contempt for the present." In his third lecture, entitled "Christ the Harlequin"-appropriately accompanied by psychedelic strobe lighting and calliope music-Cox suggested that the church can help bridge the credibility gap between past and present by reviving the "joy, festivity and holy mirth" in religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Change of Mind & Heart | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...have wine and women, mirth and laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Feb. 9, 1968 | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...only want me for one thing." He: "Yes, but what a lovely thing." If the polish is in Ferris' frame, the spit is in her delivery. She has a snort like a tugboat, she can carve an inflection into a tombstone, and she blows bubbles of mirth that might have lured Ulysses off his course. She keeps theatergoers from remembering that the play's the nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Consolation Prizes | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...which caused his endless mirth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Death of a Playwright | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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