Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fiction, the less said about "Vietnam" the better. It's all been said before and the piece is unwarranted. The other essay, a study of "Comic Realism and Dramatic Artifice in Ben Johnson" (by Harris Friedberg '67) reads like an English paper (which it may have been) but a very good English paper. The writing is interesting and well-done, and if you enjoy reading literary criticism you could do a lot worse...
...when the committee that studied the proposals reported back to the Department in October, it recommended a change that the tutors had not even mentioned: the installation of junior general examinations. The irrelevance of output to input gave the episode a slightly comic flavor, as though the reformers had slammed a door at one end of a room and a picture had fallen off the wall at the other...
...LEATHER BOYS. Motorcycling, teen marriage and homosexuality complicate the life of a serio-comic British strumpet (Rita Tushingham) whose young husband prefers to spend all his evenings out with the boys...
...began the way any Italian comic opera should: amid flowers, panoply and applause. The fanfare last fall was for little Italian Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani, off in New York greeting the Pope, making speeches and generally cutting a bella figura as the first of his nation to be honored with the presidency of the U.N. General Assembly. Then-omen of trouble-came the first slip: he fell on an icy New York sidewalk, mildly injuring...
...genre. One might have suspended disbelief, perhaps, if its characters seemed to feel as well as act. But the sinister mastermind Largo (Adolfo Celi), his lovely but treacherous "niece" (Claudine Auger), and the slowwited CIA man Leiter (a very inadequate Rick Van Nutter) are never developed beyond the comic-book level, and Bond himself (Sean Connery again) is slick and lifeless, as always...