Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent disclosures in the New York Herald Tribune of Communist plans to infiltrate U.S. church groups. A full inside page is devoted to the problems of Protestants in Europe. The relief needs of European children are dramatized in a page of photographs, and the World also boasts two exclusive comic strips: Lucy Lou, the Kangaroo ("Can jump across the fence, can you?") and Rusty Gates and His Little U.N. Gang...
...school, he won second place in an essay contest on "Why I Am Glad I Am an American." He had gotten most of his ideas on this subject from a comic book whose hero was Uncle Sam. The book said that Uncle Sam was happy because he was free to go around and "lip off" about anything he pleased, because "he didn't have to mind...
...skits and those in Bless You All again & again fall flat. For one thing, their targets are usually as obvious as their aim is erratic. Perhaps the liveliest number is the most elaborate: a take-off of a 1960 presidential campaign conducted entirely by television. The show overworks Comic Jules Munshin, who is pleasant to have around now & then, and overtaxes Comedienne Mary McCarty, who can perform-but not miracles...
...stage tale, finally enacted, is no worse, but no better, than blancmange. Composer Britten has turned out a pleasant score, full of tricky tunes and comic-opera ensembles. But the relentless whimsicality makes A. A. Milne seem downright dour; and the hippety-hoppeting would cause growls and mutters in any mildly progressive fourth grade...
...Violent. Most Americans know James Thurber for the funny fellow who draws cartoons and who analyzed the daydream of grandeur in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Yet Thurber is only every other inch a comic writer; in between, he is a psychologist as keen as any now writing in the U.S. Like most writers of unusual, not to say violent imagination, Thurber cannot always control it. There are passages in all his fairy tales (especially in The White Deer) so loaded with verbal gems-and costume jewelry too-that they clink...