Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comic Opera. In Guatemala, the 1½-year-old revolutionary government of Juan José Arévalo had fresh proof that implanting a democracy on inhospitable soil was far more complicated than toppling a dictator. Planters and merchants who resented middle-of-the-fence Arévalo's sops to labor had tried to buy up the army for a counterrevolution. The plot failed; 27 went to jail...
...with the coffee barons over social legislation had fanned the opposition. Result: just enough revolutionary gunplay (one dead, two wounded) to keep the troops in trim. If the 50,000-odd Nicaraguans now living in Costa Rica had joined last week's revolt, it would not have been comic opera...
...Housman, late master of the bittersweet lyric, got a further unveiling as a comic poet by Brother Laurence in The Atlantic. Fragment out of A. E.'s boyhood, quoted by Laurence from memory...
...Chestnut. The hub of this hubbub has a soft speaking voice, crew-cut brown hair, a shy smile and stands 5 ft. 10 in a Brooks Brothers suit. He traces his comic ancestry to Frank Fay (for sharpness and restraint) and Bing Crosby (for relaxation and affability). But his thoughtful, economical comedy style is probably more aptly compared with Chaplin...
...sneaking feeling this thing may be just an illusion," he says. If the "illusion" lasts until fall, he wants to try serious acting on radio, stage & screen. Like many another comic, Hayes is a frustrated "heavy...