Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...older man and exhibits emotions not so much false as several sizes too large for her. Having imported romantic melancholy, Chekhov-being Chekhov-could only in some degree mock its posturings; The Sea Gull remains an uneasy mixture of satire and sentiment rather than a true fusion of the comic and tragic...
...putty in the hands of his wife and family. Latest but different entry in this competition to sell Pop short is a boisterous CBS show from Hollywood called That's My Boy! (Sat. 10 p.m., E.D.T.; sponsor: Plymouth). Dad, as portrayed by spade-jawed Supper Club Comic Eddie Mayehoff, is a middleaged, nine-letter man out of old Rossmore U. whose driving passion is to make a he-man out of his skinny son, a 17-year-old bookworm who gets his exercise by reading without his glasses...
...million comic books sold in the U.S. and Canada every month, about a quarter are what the trade calls "horror comics." They deserve the title. Last week, in Manhattan, the comic-book publishing center of the U.S., a three-man Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency began an investigation to find out "the impact upon adolescents" of horror comic books. The committee never found out exactly what the impact is, but it did get some interesting testimony on how comic books are distributed...
...defense of the crime books. Publisher (Entertaining Comics Group) William Gaines opposed any censorship, on the ground that the publishers themselves are best qualified to decide what is "good taste." Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver drily asked whether Publisher Gaines considered "good taste" a comic-book cover showing an ax-wielding man holding aloft the severed head of a blonde. Answered Gaines: "Yes, I do-for the cover of a horror comic. I think it would be in bad taste if the head were held a little higher so the neck would show with the blood dripping...
Other figures in Author Jarrell's comic charade: the liberal do-gooder ("To her, real life was public, what you voted at or gave for or read about in The Nation"), the European refugees who know all about America ("You Americans do not rear children, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and applause...