Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times's radio critic Jack Gould was appalled by Flash Gordon, an interstellar TV serial based on a comic strip. He damned it as "a macabre and sordid half-hour" which had no other purpose than "a stimulation of horror, fright and ghoulish suspense." Appealing to executives of the Du Mont network as "men of sensibility and judgment," Gould asked that something be done about the show (Sat. 6:30 p.m. E.S.T.), which "so easily can have an unhappy aftermath in the impressionable minds of youngsters...
...Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, furnished the comic relief, as he usually does at these performances. He said that General Eisenhower had come to Europe to raise a German army under onetime Nazi generals, "to employ these forces against the same...
Another exhibit looked simply comic at first glance. The Cayuga Indian "Great One" mask, used in rites for the sick, represented a spirit who once challenged the Creator himself to a mountain-moving contest. The Creator responded by smacking a mountain right up against the Great One's nose, leaving him with a permanent nose tilt and a sheepish expression...
...Comic book bombs...
...comic strip called "The Berrys," which won a fourth prize, is the day-to-day epic of a dumb but well intentioned father, a port mother, and two sweet mischievous kiddies. Another freedom award was given to Pasadena's "Tournament of Roses" committee because it sponsored a parade dedicated to "Our American Heritage." Even advertising campaigns dramatizing weary American pioneers trudging through vast wildernesses rated freedom medals. These do not contribute much to understanding freedom, but play up "Americanism" for its own sake...