Word: mirthless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When University Hall again overhauls the House system, which it will certainly be forced to do when it has its hundred millions, or so, in hand, it should give graduate students a chance to return from the lonely, fluorescent garrets of the mirthless stone and steel around Harkness Common. Grad students probably would do wonders for the intellectual tone of the Houses...
...Brussels, some 500 delegates to the Assembly of World Brotherhood sat through five days of speeches without either a hint of dispute or a healthy round of applause. Few speakers succeeded in rising above the grimly mirthless atmosphere of the occasion. Belgium's Foreign Affairs Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, famed as an extemporaneous orator, armed himself with a copy of an old speech, liberally quoted himself, explained that he couldn't express his sentiments any better than he did five years...
...success bug would find love only a momentary antidote. On a purely comic basis, His and Hers never really gets off the ground. So little free will is allowed the plot that something specially gay is needed in the writing; and the writing is so metallic as to seem mirthless. Beyond pleasant performances by Celeste Holm and Robert Preston, His and Hers offers only a certain smoothness...