Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the direction of Nike Awoga and Femi Okuronmu, the cast seemed to enjoy themselves as completely as the audience did and they played their comic parts to the hilt, storming and shouting around the stage with enormous enthusiasm and exuberance. Amafume Onoge as the prophet Jeroboam delighted the house with abrupt switches from pompous ranting at his flock on stage, to sly soft-voiced asides to the audience explaining his true despicable motives. In the role of Chume, Akin Adewole '66 was as athletic and skilled at fighting with his wife as he was playing line...
...mention a Negro in an adventure comic strip being rubbed out by the syndicate "for fear of offending Southern readers." In the humorous comic strips this censorship is done in fear of offending not Southern readers but Negro readers. Cartoons are caricatures meant to make people look and act funny. Negroes are now understandably touchy about being depicted thus, so there are very few Negro cartoon characters (other than savages and primitives, and the syndicates have started clamping down on these because of the new African countries). So the cartoonist finds himself in a dilemma. If he omits Negroes from...
...popularity. Its seventh printing brings the total number of copies in print to 210,000. The book's success has backfired on Author Robert Short. While he has been conveniently putting himself through school on Peanuts by giving color-slide lectures on the theological implications in that comic strip, he now finds himself in danger of lecturing himself right out of his Ph.D. program. Receiving so many requests now to "unshell Peanuts," he hasn't cracked a book since Christmas...
Quick, Before It Melts explores the comic possibilities of sex in Antarctica and coaxes forth little more than a frozen smile. Against rear-projection views of a place that resembles McMurdo Sound, Director Delbert Mann belabors all the hoariest tricks of his trade. Melts has crazy scientists, sex-starved Navymen, a penguin that delivers radiograms, a seal given to voyeurism, and quips that must have been packed away since Admiral Byrd first visited the place. "We're having a heat wave-darned near up to zero...
...Beerbohm barely deserved, and did not desire, a place in English literature. His was an ephemeral talent, applied to composition so frail that the winds of time have blown most of his work away. The literate Beerbohm is remembered chiefly for Zuleika Dobson, his comic novel of Oxford, and his graceful caricatures of the leading figures of his day. Sir Max was also one of the most delightful human beings who ever lived: tolerant, unassuming, a witty conversationalist, unfailingly kind. To know Max was to cherish him, and as a consequence, his friends and admirers have converted his niche into...