Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just a line to express my appreciation of the beautifully written review of my book, Tale of a Whistling Shrimp [Nov. 4]. Alas, my home-town paper, commentating on the book, says, "It's hard to laugh at the Reds." Goodness-are we going Sputnik-silly? Most certainly we should laugh at this evil dictatorship. Laughter is one of democracy's strongest weapons...
...Laugh where we must, be candid where we can. --Pope, "Essay...
...country forced itself to laugh. Sputnik puns flourished, and even official responses attempted, at the outset, to dilute the Soviet achievement. Both the President and ex-Secretary Wilson tried to minimize the significance of the innovation, but the public found its sense of humor dampened by something that seemed like anxiety but couldn't be; America had never troubled itself over the technological advances of her rivals. Her superiority was too great, her talent too secure...
...which is very embarrassing to the news-stand reader looking for a chuckle of escape between the New York Times and the radio broadcast. This is Lampy's comedy ethic--to laugh at the aberrations of modern...
...critical of his criticism of it. Thomas's readings transmitted the presence of a naked and passionate soul which Mr. Williams cannot hope to convey. Williams as entertainer seems to over-ride Thomas as poet, and thus in comparison the reading seemed a trifle gutless--sometimes straining for a laugh that would be better left a snicker. Thomas's vignettes gained force as the performance wore on and Williams abandoned the conscious mimicking of Thomas's speech patterns...