Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes his point by inviting a smile, Cover Subject Mauldin has a sober view of his trade. He thinks that "the American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery." He thinks times are getting worse-and therefore better...
...week's end the spaceman's boyish smile and unfailing modesty had conquered all Britain. Queen Elizabeth had him for lunch at Buckingham Palace, seating him in the place of honor on her right; Macmillan invited him to Admiralty House, after 20 minutes with Yuri pronounced him "a delightful fellow." A 23-year-old British nurse ambushed Yuri as he emerged from the Russian embassy, flung her arms around his neck for a solid kiss, proclaimed him "the most kissable man in the universe." Headline the Daily Mail: MAKE HIM SIR YURI...
...Britain's Royal Society of Arts. Will Gropius have time next month to attend the formal opening of the embassy in Athens? "No. I don't think I can make it. I'm too busy," says the old architect with just the trace of a smile...
...best of the confessions involves the superb farceurs of Smiles and Lessons. Gunnar Bjornstrand, tall, reserved, marinated in dignity, is a corporation president, and pillowy, blonde Eva Dahlbeck is his wife. Coming home from a formal-dress party, they get stuck in a self-service elevator. Frantically he stays calm. She laughs. He rages. She twits him about his reserve: is he that way with his mistresses? He blusters, then grows suspicious: has she had lovers? "Of course," she says prettily. The lights go out; she clutches at him; his top hat is mashed. The lights go on; she mocks...
Chen drew guffaws from his audience when he cited as the Nationalist government's most outstanding achievement its removal from Taiwan of all traces of Communist influence. "There is no Communist activity on the island," he asserted, adding with a half-smile, "No other nation can boast the same...