Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thurber chooses the comic motif, yet in this process presents to the reader's (perhaps subconscious) appetite a number of themes primary to our age. For Americans sex and war have replaced food and physical danger as cardinal concerns, and new symbols are needed to connote these fears. Thurber has answered with the rabbit myth...
...twenty songs on the disc are about equally divided between the comic and the sentimental, with two tentative rock and roll numbers. The Dunces make swirling noises for the sentimental songs, and go bum-bum for the comic. Some of each group were written by Dunces, but this doesn't make much difference...
Having lived (gasp!) in the vicinity (shudder!) of Harvard for the past eight years, cartoonist Al Capp feels that there is such a thing as a single "Harvard type." When one says "Harvard man" in a comic strip, according to Capp, a particular image immediately occurs to the reader. The public has fixed ideas, and "just as the Bowery stands for a bum or Wall Street stands for high finance, the name of Harvard stands for something--a sort of confused superiority...
...high seriousness were put off at first by Greco's 7-ft., posturing Bathers, nude except for a Bikini with tight, binding bra. But Greco expects spectators to chuckle at the unexpected solemnity of their plump, vapid faces-while admiring their slender-legged charms. Says he, "They are comic figures, part of our society. They have participated in life; their participation is my theme...
...unhinged tenant, becomes instead his brother. The Loan joins a man who desperately needs help with one who desperately wants to give it but cannot: they "embraced and sighed over their lost youth. They pressed mouths together and parted forever.'' Behold the Key is a vastly comic story of a young American whose search for an inexpensive Roman apartment sends him ricocheting from one involved and Machiavellian Italian to another and leaves him on the last page dazed, dazzled and without an apartment but wholly in love with Italy. Author Malamud's deft hand slips occasionally...