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Word: comical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intense reaction comes partly from the different perspective on events as seen by Latin Americans. What to a U.S. citizen might seem a quixotic, comic, futile or irrelevant revolution can be brave, idealistic, tragic or admirable to its courageous participants. The army that is a means of national defense in the U.S. and Europe can be policeman and intermittent government in much of Latin America. To the U.S. reporter, born to a heritage of liberty and democracy, the Latin American, in his political fight for liberty, democracy and economic sufficiency, can seem mercurial, sometimes misguided. To the Latin American, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...weekend opened with Comic Pianist Victor Borge, whose show was the familiar, funny and overlong romp. It closed with admirably durable Rosalind Russell once again going through the invigorating setting-up exercises of Wonderful Town. CBS gave it two hours, and the TV version of the Broadway musical turned out to be just as whackily brilliant as the original. When the camera zoomed in on Roz and Sister Eileen (Jacquelyn McKeever), huddled in their virginal Manhattan bed and wailing Why Did I Ever Leave Ohio?, the old Town never seemed more wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Weekend Bender | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Among the sad stories of the deaths of kings," says Author Turner, "the account of Charles II's last days is a horror-comic." When the monarch fell ill of kidney disease on a Sunday evening, Dr. Edmund King braved a death sentence by bleeding Charles without consent of his ministers. Next day they forgivingly voted Dr. King ?1,000, but sent in so many other doctors (18) that he was nearly crowded out of the royal chamber. For five days, writes Turner, the panicky new platoon tried everything on Charles except rest and privacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: God Save the King | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Maria Callas, Zinka Milanov, and Rudolph Bing together in one room and you'll have the situation that forms the basis for Mozart's charming little comic opera, The Impresario. The petty jealousies and bickerings detailed by Mozart and his librettist strike home today just as well as they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mozart's 'Impresario' | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

...Quaker Oats, the cereal shot from guns. We remember the sidekicks: Vic, Tank Tinker, Jim and Penny and Clipper. We remember the villains; the Gray Ghost, Dr. Martelli, the secret agents with German accents, who called one another Klaus and Fritz and Karl. There were, of course, comic books, and we are not unfamiliar with Superman, Batman and Robin, or the Plastic Man. But mostly we listened, and imagined...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: From a Kazoo Kulture To Wheaties Democracy | 12/4/1958 | See Source »

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