Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preposterous plot is meant to be a mocking comment on contemporary society, and Composer Gian Carlo Menotti intended to blend it all into a witty comic opera. But when The Last Savage was given its world premiére at Paris' Opera-Comique last week, the satiric fun was blanketed with annoyed disappointment. In his first comedy since The Telephone in 1947, Menotti had fallen well below his usual mark, with a tiresome, lurching, seldom funny libretto and a derivative score that even in its academic jokes was hardly musique sérieuse...
...earned it. He is selfish, improvident, coarse, arrogant and bullying. "Don't stand out there in the cold, lass," he says to his sister-in-law, come to pay a visit. "Buzz off." His name is Andy Capp, and he is the newest folk hero of the comic strips...
...Britain's welfare state was born in the mind of a onetime butcher's helper who strayed into the graphic arts quite by chance. Britain's largest daily, the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,631,000), wanted to woo Northern English readers with a new comic strip set in that grimy part of the island, and Freelance Artist Reginald Smythe just happened to be available for the job. Smythe had grown up in the north of England, in an industrial blight called Hartlepool, hard by the River Tees; although he had escaped into the army, he still...
...troubles the administration has carefully worked itself into may seem comic when viewed out of perspective, but the outcome is not likely to be funny at all. The chaos in the committee has seriously harmed the chances of passing an effective civil rights bill this year; indeed it takes considerable optimism to say that there is even a chance of passing a bill at this session. This is a very unfortunate situation. For years much of America acknowledged that it had mistreated its Negro citizens, but the temper of the President, the composition of the Congress, or the feeling...
Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General is a funny and inventive play. It includes all sorts of comic devices, from the broadest of slapstick to sly, finely-timed lines. The Harvard Dramatic Club production, which opened the Loeb season last night, adds a few more touches; lavish make-up (especially emphasizing Gogol's nose fixation) and underlings with Brooklyn accents. The result is an often hilarious evening, which suffers only occasionally from tedious repetition of obvious jokes...