Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HIGH SERIOUSNESS. Matthew Arnold, you remember, said the greatest art displayed a High Seriousness. That's not to exclude the serious masquerading as comic, or even the outright Slapstick farcical comic. It may not be the greatest art, Arnold said, but we-all-love-a-good-joke-hey-boys...
...Matthew Arnold forgot to leave any guidelines for dealing with Warhol say, or Godard, or Frank O'Hara. They are artists of the serious as comic. They display a kind of consciousness in which profound truths, new, original insights are seen as funny, not screamingly funny perhaps, but funny nonetheless. "It's true but it's still a joke," as George Harrison says,"...It's serious and it's not serious...
Thursday, September 26 BLONDIE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Chic Young's 38-year-old comic strip returns to television after ten years. Patricia Harty is Blondie, Will Hutchins is Dagwood. and Jim Backus (Mister Magoo) is J. C. Dithers. Premiere...
...part of the mysterious human comedy, enriched by the quietly commanding achievement of Richard Castellano's performance as Frank. Pouch-eyed and beer-bellied, he looks, talks and acts just like Paddy Chayevsky's Marty grown 30 years older, and gives to the entire production a particular comic flavor...
Even this grisly story is lightened by comic touches. Charley's family gathers gloomily around the radio and hears Gabriel Heatter, the doom-laden commentator, warn "of dreaded pyorrhea." On another occasion, Charley, in adolescent bravado, adds "the suicide caper to his repertoire of small talk, using it to fascinate women." Alas, it only bores them. As a companion piece to Factory, the story sharply emphasizes Sheed's overall theme: the harmful consequences of clutching at visions of the past, whether they are mythical but life-sustaining visions like Jimmy's or real but death-dealing ones...