Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience," Goldstein says, "has to feel superior. Like in a quiz show, if the audience knows the answer and the guy misses it, they feel good. So your comic has to be somebody not as smart as the guy watching it. You can't laugh at somebody who's smarter than you. Hollywood wouldn't believe it, but every so often you see a Ma & Pa Kettle coming out of a theater, laughing at themselves...
...course, possible that Willy might have had Schuster shot in retaliation. But a supposition like this proves that either the police didn't know Sutton very well, or that Sutton had changed since the days of his Philadelphia jailbreak. As the youngest comic-book fan of Gangbusters will testify, Willy was never a man for violence, especially killing...
...fine publicity work of Burton Malkiel '53, drew a large crowd to the Adams House Dining Hall for the first program Sunday night. The concert began with John Davison's comic overture for seven instruments, II Janitoro. This was a most congenial program-opener--consonant, uncomplicated, with touches of real humor. The ensemble's performance faltered at times, but the piece still sounded sunny and worth hearing again...
...discovers herself for the awkward thing she is. No More The Nightingales tells of the seduction of a rich woman by a confident farm hand who treats her "as if she were a tame hen that . . . could not possibly fly." But every few stories Bates varies his tone. Two comic sketches concern Uncle Silas, a village Falstaff, given to "beery winks from a bloodshot eye that was like a fire in a field of poppies." Reminiscing about his youth, when women were "allus arter you," Uncle Silas tells the story of a landlady with a passion for making puddings...
...symbolism, you pays your money and you takes your choice. However, there are three primary symbolic characters--the psychiatrist, the gossipy old woman, and the worldly, semi-comic friend of the family, who "has connections everywhere"--and the number three is not unimportant in Christian theology. This may or may not mean something. In addition, Mr. Eliot has stated that he incorporated an unrecognized Greek myth into the drama, and for all I could tell he may have included two unrecognized Greek myths. But even if you only get a broad idea of the basic symbolism, you can have...