Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent graduates have subjects the College to a comic book analysis with 57 witty and perceptive cartoons and a short, sometimes amusing text. David G. Braaten drew most of the cartoons for the CRIMSON while he was its staff cartoonist in 1947-49. He has added several more since his graduation to bring the 62-page volume up to date...
Almost every other comic has nervously surrounded himself with elaborate props for his entry into television. Jimmy Durante brought only his nose, his piano, his rasp-voiced songs and patter, and sat down like an old friend in the televiewer's living room. Durante and TV were a long time getting together, but it was well worth the wait...
...Grande (Argosy; Republic] continues the descent of Director John Ford into his latter-day role as scourge of thd redskin and glorifier of the U.S. Cavalry. The Rover-boy characters, the conflict of love v. duty, the boisterous comic relief, the cavalry charges and screeching Indian raids are all here, set against the well-photographed buttes and plains of what used to be God's country before Ford took it over...
...then that Nazi propaganda lies about Roosevelt's racial background could have begun. For each time a new set of officers was elected in those days a comic poster was printed playing on the names of the new men. In FDR's case it read: "For Secretary, Rosy Rosenfelt, The Lillie of the Valley...
...people is a tragic and comic two-face: hero and hoodlum: phantom...