Word: comical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many poetic and dramatic geniuses flourished during this period," Professor Eliot continued, "but I regret that some of the plays are not better than they are. The desire for comic relief on the part of the audience is a craving of human nature, due to an inability to concentrate. An audience which can maintain its attention on pure tragedy is more highly civilized than any other audience. 'Racine's 'Berenice', in this respect represents a peak of human civilization...
...financial difficulties of the Lampoon are no surprise to those well acquainted with the problems of maintaining undergraduate publications in the face of economic retrenchment on all sides. The temporary crisis which confronts the most venerable college comic in the country may deprive Harvard of one of her oldest institutions. Despite occasional lapses into adolescent bad taste, the Lampoon, in face of falling subscriptions and hostile trends "has endeavored to maintain a high standard of clean wholesome humor...
Silly Symphonies, like Mickey Mouse, are an invention of Comic Artist Walt Disney, who at 31 gets about $400,000 a year from his ridiculous creations. Admirers of Silly Symphonies have lately been delighted to see that instead of using black & white line drawings as heretofore, Artist Disney is now making Silly Symphonies in color. Current release, King Neptune, is a bizarre romance in which a brown boatload of pirates is punished in silly-symphonic fashion for molesting a collection of sleek mermaids with green tails. Blue fish bombard the pirate boat with caviar which they spit out of their...
...collaboration for the first time since they wrote The Royal Family, Playwrights Kaufman & Ferber have turned out a piece in which they should take pleasure and profit, too. Dinner at Eight is seriocomic, and it may be inferred that Miss Ferber supplied the serio-element, Mr. Kaufman the comic. The deft Kaufman hand, however, is thoroughly evident in this excellent play's shrewd direction...
...symphony subscribers went to the concert with high expectations. Composer Carpenter had delighted them before with Adventures in a Perambulator in which are described the reactions of an infant taking its daily excursion to the lake front; with Krazy Kat, sensitive, half-sad music for George Herriman's comic-strip characters; with a finely made Concertino for Piano & Orchestra...