Word: comic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Comic Strips are good medicine for neurasthenics. Said Homeopath Frederick W. Seward: "Violent explosions of temper are emotional sprees . . laughter is compensation for them. I advise neurasthenics to look for the funny side of life, subscribe to comic magazines...
...Geoffrey Holdsworth of England) well merits the distinction of her pseudonymous initials (G. B. S.) Few writers of equal taste can so deftly thread the fine needle of discernment with the wiry fibres of reality. Thunderstorm begins as an idyll-an intelligent young English couple basking beneath the comic benevolence of their Italian servants, emotional 'Vanna and heroic Ettore. Basking with them are semi-permanent guests, a durable male friend, a spirited girl cousin. To the baskers blows a breeze-news of a desirable position for the host in England. A jog is indicated in everyone's life...
...North Carolina (Chapel Hill) celebrated its 130th anniversary, was informed by Glenn Frank, President-elect of the University of Wisconsin: "The educational world is caught in the sweep of a Safety first' movement. . . . It may be that the most serious need of the human race just now is comic relief...
...talking about, until all rules of classification have been badly shaken, if not wholly destroyed. Jazz and moving pictures were brought into the fold by Gilbert Seldes, in his book "The Seven Lively Arts," and Mr. Seldes has now stretched an arm into limbo and brought back the comic strip, which has long been devoured avidly by children, and surreptitiously by grown-ups. It seems that comic strips, when done by such competent artists as Webster, Briggs, and Rube Goldberg give a more realistic picture of bits of American life than any of the modern novels of unromantic detail have...
...current New Republic Mr. Seldes calls these purveyors of amusement "sour commentators," and of the work of Goldberg, for example, says: "It is extraordinarily unkind, yet without rancor, and is almost dispassionate in its cruelty." One can agree heartily with Mr. Seldes when he praises the writers of comic strips because they never verge into the nauseating sentimentality of most magazines and moving pictures. Yet they are, in his phrase, "male and ugly," with negligible plots, formed of cruelty and violence. His reason, however, as to why the comic strip is read so widely by the very people...