Word: thoughtfullness
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"If I Had the Brains." Fred's durability as a comedian has not depended solely on the obvious externals of slapstick. His voice, to be sure, sounds as if it might be filing his teeth down as it issues from his spigot mouth. And his face ("the sharpest knife...
Black Hole. As a writer of fiercely topical satire for a windblown medium, Allen has acquired, in spite of his protests, considerable stature. His work has an angry, big-city clank, a splashy neon idiom and a sort of 16-cylinder poetry. Like a well-barbered, satiric Buddha, he squats...
The Alley is a fairly serious attempt to take four large U.S. social groups, personify them-and play them for laughs. In other hands this idea has produced, at best, good caricatures. Allen has built it into at least two larger-than-life characters and a wealth of thoughtful jests...
Committee: "It knocks budget plans askew." He thought the whole, interrelated problem would have to be tackled anew. Many thoughtful Republicans agreed with him-but not Minnesota's Harold Knutson, chairman of Ways & Means, who was driving his committee with a bull whip.
To George Bernard Shaw, who watches his diet, went a thoughtful tribute from Literary Heavyweight Gene Tunney, who also watches his: a shipment of nuts, apples, pineapples, dates.