Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wouldn't make sense for the word "hooliganism," as used by the Russians, to derive from Happy Hooligan of a long-ago U.S. comic strip [TIME, Nov. 8]. Happy was a harmless wight who was always being socked, never did any socking. Doesn't the word really come from a family of notorious ruffians, active in London at the end of the last century, named Hoolihan or Hooligan...
...Throw away the comic books," "Close down the TV stations," "Return to breastfeeding," and "Get tough with them." But, he adds, "really to understand what is happening to youth requires psychological knowledge. Both the basic tendencies of modern youth-to 'act out' and to drift into herds-are symptoms of a psychiatric condition, worldwide in scope, related di rectly to the social and political temper of our times. There is only one mental aberration in which these two symptoms coexist: in the psychopathic personality, essentially antisocial, conscienceless, inclined to violence in behavior, and liable to loss of identity...
...speculative stories on leading candidates for high posts ("Four Red Hats Expected"), court decisions affecting the church, and Catholic views on U.S. foreign policy ("Catholic Women Attack Trade with Red Lands"). The paper is lightened with feature stories, e.g., the "filming of a 'miraculous' cure at Lourdes," comic strips and cartoons (Henry, Mister Breger), serials (Harold Lamb's Charlemagne, the Legend and the Man), crossword puzzles and fashions...
Offered little in the way of parts, the cast seldom rises above the limitations of the play. The major role of barrister Sir William Robert is played by Francis L. Sullivan, whose pomposity and gruff voice should provide the play with a comic touch. Sir William is indeed pompous, and since Sullivan has a cold his voice is even gruffer than usual, but the playgoer may wait all evening without hearing him speak a genuinely clever line. As the suspect Leonard Vole, Robert Craven creates a peculiarly obnoxious hero, not from bad acting as one might first suspect, but because...
Levin said that although advances in recording and printing techniques have brought great works of art closer to us, these same advances are also responsible for the distribution and popularity of joke box music and comic books. The present demand for abridgements of worthwhile literature, the commercialization of folk arts, and the popularization of classical music is definitely indicative of our entering the age of the cult of the slob," the concluded...