Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ustinov's raucous imitation of musicians, U.S. politicians and various automobiles (a passionate hobby) so fascinated the BBC program director that the 15-minute show was expanded to 30 minutes on the spot. It was on a BBC panel show that Ustinov gave first utterance to the comic title for a traveling vaudeville team, "Bulge and Khrush." Like everything else, TV itself has felt his witty sting. Sample: "Crusty old politicians are now told how to put things across on TV. And the more charming they are, the less you believe ... I still remember Macmillan on TV last year...
Victor Borge: To be excruciatingly funny, Pianist-Comic Victor Borge needs only to munch a sticky peanut-butter sandwich, or hunt for a B-flat for the score he is pirating from the great composers. For this season's one-night stand on CBS, the theater's longest-run one-man show (849 performances on Broadway) shared his whopping $200,000 fee with an orchestra and guest stars. But the evening was mostly comedy, and, comic or serious, it was all Borge...
...Brown is the moonfaced, star-crossed hero of the fast-rising Peanuts strip. Less than eight years old. the seven-days-a-week strip is carried by 355 U.S. dailies and some 40 foreign papers, and has overflowed into such profitable sidelines as a series of children's comic books and four $1-a-copy collections for grownups that have sold 570,000 copies...
...priceless-to-science" body of Laika, the Russian dog still orbiting in Sputnik II, rival spaceships battled grimly last week with every weapon still unknown to science. The futuristic dogfight took place in Buck Rogers, the comic pages' oldest and highest-flying extraterrestrial strip, which was launched into newspaper space 29 years ago by Chicago's National Newspaper Syndicate. A perennial hero to the space-gun set, Buck Rogers is flying higher than ever after falling from a prewar apogee of 136 client dailies in 1935 to a postwar perigee of 43 papers...
...take the whole thing seriously. The enormous anxieties generated in every member of the sophomore class, the superficiality and downright silliness of its standards and ceremonies, the blatant injustices of the values and principles the system inculcates--all would seem ludicrous in any civilized community, but they are doubly comic when set in one of the nation's greatest universities and practiced by what is supposed to be a substantial segment of this generation's intellectual elite...