Word: mirthfulness
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MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! As Actor Hal Holbrook brings the man from Hannibal, Mo., back to life in a one-man show, he seems a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside punitive thunderbolts for lightning strokes of irony and mirth. The format is that of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures; the wry humor is timeless...
MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! As Actor Hal Holbrook brings the man from Hannibal, Mo., back to life in a one-man show, he seems a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside punitive thunderbolts for lightning strokes of irony and mirth. The format is that of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures; the wry humor is of the moment...
Mark Twain Tonight! Hal Holbrook spends 31 hours putting on his Mark Twain makeup, but he has spent 13 years getting into Mark Twain's psyche. What began as an extraordinary physical likeness has become a communion of spirit, a marriage of two minds, a shared inner mirth at man's foibles that approaches philosophy...
...large measure, they share the same targets. Only bad writers literally hold nothing sacred; the best of the black humorists hold some things too sacred to be bleared with hypocrisy or smeared with prurience. So they mock with a cleansing mirth every emotionally supersudsed subject from sex and death to religion, patriotism, family pieties money, mom, war and the Bomb. They are as well aware as any conventional morahzer that the times are out of joint, but they choose to greet the dislocation with a jeer rather than a jeremiad...
However disappointing the campaign might have been, at least one editorial hand found plenty of cause for mirth...