Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indonesia's civil war has so far appeared more comic opera than tragedy. Yet it is closely watched by men in the U.S. State Department and in other chancelleries, East and West. Many in the free world! who would breathe easier if President Sukarno's Red-propped government tumbled, were examining the Central Sumatran revolution for the two prime requisites of successful revolutions: 1) united, vigorous leadership, and 2) the will to fight. So far, Indonesia's dissidents have shown a disheartening lack of both...
...your March 3 issue, a striking contrast could be noted: Missile Expert Wernher von Braun earns $16,000 yearly; Comic Strip Artist Charlie (Peanuts) Schulz, who "somehow graduated from high school after flunking algebra, Latin, English, physics," makes a whopping $90,000 a year...
...From the moment he ambled onstage with a dozen batons under his arm, Comic Danny Kaye, guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic for its Pension Fund Benefit, had Carnegie Hall patrons collapsing with guffaws. Unable to read music, Conductor Kaye directed some favorite classics surprisingly well, had audience and orchestra falling from their chairs by: 1) kissing two girl harpists and a bull fiddler; 2) parodying common conductorial techniques, i.e., "the coffee grinder" and "the meat chopper"; 3) arguing with his oboist over an A; 4) falling into the cellos during a crescendo. Said Kaye...
...Italy's biggest daily (circ. 505,000) and one of the most enterprising newspapers published anywhere. Known in Milan simply as The Newspaper, staid Corriere della Sera got its start and its name as an evening paper, now comes out in two editions every morning. It runs no comic strips, gossip columns or guessing games, clings solidly to the aim outlined in its first issue 82 years ago: "We intend to be the faithful mirror of the world...
...This comic-strip exercise in esthetics is typical of the way Bernstein this season made the old Young People's series a bracing, fact-filled musical kindergarten for young and old. He wrote his own scripts for four televised, hour-long concerts (the last is due next month), using much the same technique as in the Omnibus music-appreciation series (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Teacher Bernstein combined, in equal parts, his musical knowledge, charm, eloquence...