Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odious little girl," rasped Italy's Communist daily L'Unità. "She thinks she is the navel of the world. She is a Fascist." Who drew the Red scowls? Why, none other than Lucy, 6, devastating heroine of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip. With the appearance of a Peanuts collection in Italy, L'Unità decided to pseudoanalyze her. "She gossips continuously about others, blackmails them, hollers about other people's complexes, but remains turned in on herself. One hates her." To all this, there was only one thing to say, and Cartoonist Schulz...
Last weekend's Experimental Theatre production of George Bernard Shaw's Village Wooing was a warm and delightful artistic experience which captured the spirit of Shaw's comic genius...
...subjects of writers today than in other corrupt ages. Yet so often variations on this theme lapse into ponderous, and therefore ineffective, moralizing. But when our grosser sins, not only our foibles, are presented to us with wit and grace we take notice. Often the barbed needles of the comic writer pierce far deeper than the heavy blows of the ostensiby more serious dramatist...
Despite the script, however, the Harvard Summer School Players have made the New York Idea into a good, if not distinguished, show. Displaying the combination of youthful exuberance and careful polish that the community has come to expect of Loeb main stage productions, they exploit all possible comic situations, and, except for the last scene, keep the play moving at a pleasantly brisk pace...
David Mills, as the English Gentleman Visiting America to Learn Its Quaint Customs is delightfully blustering and charmingly conceited if not overwhelmingly British. A skillful comic, he pursues his women with-admirable vitality and resilence...