Word: comic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loitered outside Mem Hall waiting for an exam to begin knows that feeling of disgust when the inevitable clown makes the usual jokes while you frantically try to remember just what in hell the War of Jenkins' Ear was. It's not the idea of comic relief that bothers you, it's those awful jokes. Black humor, more than any other type of humor, has to be very sharp to succeed at all. It must present an absurd situation in such a way that the audience can identify it as absurd; yet as a very definite part of human nature...
...violation of human rights in Uganda, the U.S. should ask the U.N. to look into "the crimes which the U.S. has committed in various parts of the world." But he closed by asking Carter "to pass my greetings to all Americans, both white and black," and added a typically comic touch: "I hope to visit you at the White House in the near future...
...FIRST INTRODUCTION to bodybuilding for most people is the Mike Marvel advertisement on the inside cover of Superman comic books. Once a year, ABC's Wide World of Sports features a bodybuilding context as a novelty. Even a Harvard student won some notoriety last year as an "artist sculpting my body." He won some title like "Mr. College America" after the initial winner was disqualified because he attended a regrigerator repair school. Although bodybuilders and competitive weightlifters are popular in Europe, Americans have little respect for those who throw the steel around...
...third cute. But all aspects of the five-minute-long play are commendably understated, from the grey lighting to the long poses. It is understandable that a serious minded audience would remain in reverential silence during a play like this. For all its derivation from what are conventionally considered comic genres, the laughs this play inspires are empty ones...
RACIAL HUMOR has long represented a particularly sore point with Harvard's black community, and comic stereotypes of blacks become all the more painful when they appear in on-campus publications like the Lampoon. The board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association (HRBSA) made its outrage clear last week when it asked both black and white undergraduates to sign a petition charging the Lampoon with "racial insensitivity" in recent issues. The cover of one magazine last spring, for instance, featured a drawing of a black shining the shoes of John Harvard's statue...