Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jockey Charlie Burr put aside his comic book, settled back more comfortably in his deck chair, and surveyed his pleasant surroundings. Florida sunshine warmed his skinny (5 ft. 3 in., 101 Ibs.) frame; the flowers of Tropical Park-hibiscus, cro-tons, ixora-bloomed in profusion around the track; banks of clipped Australian pine lined the clubhouse drive. This, he decided, was the life-a far cry from his boyhood years on the farm in Kansas. Last week, just two months after he lost his apprentice allowance (a five-pound weight concession), Charlie Burr entered an exclusive fraternity: he became...
Miracle in Milan. A warm, richly comic fantasy by Italy's Vittorio de Sica (TIME...
Miracle in Milan. A comic masterpiece of fantasy by Italy's Director Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica (TIME, Dec.17...
...team was headed by Colonel Philip Cochran, better known as the prototype of Flip Corkin in the comic strip Terry and the Pirates.* When Cochran reached India in 1943, Wingate's expedition had been called off for lack of transport planes. Cochran calmly announced that this was no problem ; gliders would do the trick. Through and sometimes over Wingate's persistent doubts, Cochran reconstructed the tactics of the campaign...
...carried his stamp only lightly. But Concluding (published with Caught in the last week of 1950) was a fine original novel about youth and old age, written in a style close to poetry and filled with insights into human incongruities. Joyce Gary proved again that he has the richest comic sense among living writers in English. His Mister Johnson, the story of a young African clerk who wanted too much from life, was just about the most satisfying novel of the U.S. year, though first published in England in 1939. Nancy Mitford's gift for cultivated malice came shining...