Word: mirthfully
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...scholars vow to live three years isolated from all female companionship, but the arrival of a French princess and her female entourage challenges and soon ridicules the pledge. Upon this comedy of incident is built the larger and more important comedy of words; poetic dialogue is the main mirth of the play. In provocative contrast, the concluding prose lines suggest both tragedy and the Shakespaere of tragic fruition. "The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo," says philosophic Armado after the women have been called home. "You, that way; we, this...
...does one of the best jobs. Critic Daiches (Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson) scans the poet's lines more closely than his life. Even so, he manages to clear away enough romantic rubble to expose a Burns who could say: "Even in the hour of social mirth, my gaiety is the madness of an intoxicated criminal under the hands of the executioner." Burns came by his melancholy early and honestly...
...make the best of what is here and not whine for more: "Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better." Frost is something of a philosophical an archist. Liberals and reformers move him to sly mirth. He has no confidence that the earth can be improved through social action or scientific gimcrackery: "One can safely say after from six to thirty thou sand years of experience that the evident design is a situation here in which it will always be about equally hard to save your soul...
From the Communists there was smug mirth. Their press mocked America's "atomaniacs." In Italy, pro-Soviet Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni (just back from a 15-day junket to another "peace" congress in Moscow) proudly pinpointed the site of the explosion in "eastern Siberia." In the town of Santeramo near Bari, Communists got the news in the middle of the night, raced in nightshirts and dressing gowns to a hasty rally where a speaker promised: "We Communists will have our headquarters at the White House! Washington shall be ours...
MacArthur thinks he can wipe the smile off little Nozaka's face. This much is certain: the Communists would have far greater cause for mirth if Douglas MacArthur had never come to Japan...