Word: mirthfulness
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Patience, like incest or the mad uncle locked in the attic, is the type of thing everyone has heard about but very few experience. It is usually passed over for the better known works of Gilbert and Sullivan, for it lacks the fire of Feydeau or the mirth of Moliere. Nonetheless, done well, it is an entertainment worthy of note, and at Agassiz, it is being done as well...
Laughter in the Louvre? As gross a solecism, one might think, as a belch in the Sainte-Chapelle. Yet for several weeks, visitors to the Louvre's Museum of Decorative Arts have been convulsed with mirth over the work of a puckish artist from Marseille, Jacques Carelman. With his collection of "Objets In-trouvables" (Unfindable Objects), Carelman has revived Surrealist humor and created the wittiest show to be seen in Paris in years. (It will open in Dallas next winter...
Sister No. 3 and her husband have reached a silver wedding anniversary that obviously isn't polished. But if they've lost the magic, they've kept the mirth, at least until each begins quizzing the other about extramarital affairs. The mother of this trio is a salty old Irish Catholic biddy who has one dying wish: that her Dutch common-law husband make an honest wife of her before a priest...
Present Past Past Present is the opposite of mirth. lonesco takes everything so seriously there is no room left for humor, and lonesco is so devastated by his existence all he can do is groan. Subtitled "A Personal Memoir", this book is the sequel to his autobiographical first volume Fragments of a Journal. It starts with flashes from lonesco's youth that run from a few lines to a few pages and then becomes a mix of his impressions at the beginning of World War Two, his thoughts about Israel and French intellectuals. lonesco not only sees what is hypocritical...
...hope. Perhaps the content of his plays is nearly as disillusioned. But in them his inability to make sense out of the world becomes scenes of brilliant nonsense. He turns the types of people he hates into grotesques and their cliches into jokes. And behind their despair is the mirth of a man doing just what he does best...