Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, chief of the Indian delegation, began with some sarcastic comments on "the free flow of information" with which U.S. delegates say they would like to wash the world. It would just mean, said he, a flood of U.S. crossword puzzles, detective stories and comic books. India could get along nicely without such American cheap-jackery, thank...
...week for Bob Hope. In the latest Hooperating, he lost his position as the nation's favorite radio comic when Fellow Funnyman Fred Allen tied him for first place. As if that weren't bitter enough, the representatives of 20,000 college students named Hope the worst comedian on the air. On the basis of good taste, the students decided, his show was "barely acceptable...
...critics hit at radio," says Ratner, "because they claim to be shocked at the programs; actually they're shocked at what the U.S. people are. Radio fits the contours of the people. The masses like comic books, Betty Grable in the movies, broad comedy and simple drama on the air. It's vulgar, fast, simple, fundamental -and that's what...
Such consistent success was earned by the diligent exercise of a slender but well-muscled comic talent-a gift, said one critic, for being "obviously obvious about the very obvious." His father, a Dutch banker in London, insisted that John read for the law before starting a writing career. John dutifully did, began writing Young Woodley while teaching English law and legal history at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth...
...Love in a Village," eighteenth century comic opera, will be staged jointly this December by the Idler and the Choral Society, Radcliffe's two largest organizations, and the Harvard Glee Club...