Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tragi-comic fantasy by the au thor of Liliom and The Guardsman. A modern Hungarian Munchausen makes himself the hero of every wild, romantic tale he has ever heard, but his own life is more bizarre than his fancies...
...first issue of Yank, June 17, 1942, the comic strip G.I. Joe made its debut. . . . If anyone can offer documentary evidence of publication of the term "G.I. Joe" before June 17, 1942 I will cheerfully withdraw my claim, and offer such person an inscribed original of G.I. Joe or Private Breger...
...Babbitt. He is smug, ambitious, self-righteous, calculating. Unlike Babbitt, he has a mean streak, especially in his relations with women. His life is actually harsher than Babbitt's was. But his enjoyment of his stale jokes is genuine; his faith in his secondhand opinions is profound; his comic-strip adventures with girls and jobs are funny...
...face of things, U.S. intervention had been a serio-comic failure. But it was not a fiasco. The U.S. principle was on record, in a specific case: that provisional governments have only provisional power until their people have a chance to speak...
...flawless timing, squires each wrinkled act around as though it were a dewy-eyed debutante. For another thing, Blackouts never stays put. Performers improvise to their hearts' content, while the show itself has been changed 77 times. It has boasted a man who imitates phonograph records, a Chinese comic, a drum-majorette, a gorilla, an elderly lady acrobat; it has auditioned a bow-&-arrow champion, a camel, and a skunk. Of the original cast, only Murray and Marie Wilson have not dropped...