Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stone, a McCarthy leader in California, says of Humphrey's future: "He's finished. Nothing is going to change that. The old buffaloes are on their last legs." California's former Governor Pat Brown, an orthodox liberal of the Humphrey stripe, laments: "It's a bad day for guys like me who have worked in politics all their lives. You know, those liberals can be bastards when they get their hooks into...
...short, along with genuine wit, much of the humor is terrible/funny or just terrible/terrible. A lot of the material would have seemed dated in New Jersey burlesque during Prohibition. Can they really mean it-using this sort of stuff on TV in 1968? Laugh-In's producers know bad jokes when they use them. There is an element of camp and reverse sophistication in this, reminiscent of making a cult of Charlie Chan movies and Captain Marvel comic books. Besides, the outrageous jokes are thrown into the machinery of the show to create contrast and surprise, and to give...
...offers something for-and against-everybody. One week it pelts a Republican: SPIRO AGNEW . . . YOUR NEW NAME IS READY. The next week it zeroes in on the President: "Texas produced some great men: Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin and Lyndon Johnson. Two out of three isn't bad." And the once risky subjects of race, religion and nationality are treated just as irreverently. "Who put the last seven bullets into Mussolini? Three hundred Italian sharpshooters...
...Negro. Both are dramas of contrition with little internal life; they would scarcely stir, except for the borrowed adrenaline of newspaper headlines, past history, and the emotional sympathies of the already converted. For the price of a mea culpa, the audience is made to feel good by feeling bad...
Godless Actors. England's play censorship was established during the 16th century in order to stamp out Catholic stage resistance to the Reformation, as well as to protect the people from the bad influence of actors, who were generally held to be godless degenerates. Licensing became an official duty of the Chamberlain in 1737, when Prime Minister Robert Walpole grew so outraged by the political lampoons of Henry Fielding that he forced through a new censorship law. Since then, the Lords Chamberlain have had unchallengeable authority to ban plays by Ibsen (Ghosts), Shaw (Mrs. Warren's Profession), Pirandello...