Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clever young man's attempt to settle scores with his old school. But Powell, at 50, still writes of young men like a young man-one who has mercifully lived down his youth. Narrator Jenkins has a remarkably good ear, and records middle-and upper-class conversation with comic precision. And he is presented as a descendant of that Captain Jenkins about whose ear a war was fought in the 18th century.* By this ancestry, Author Powell indicates that great events are to be set in motion by his apparently offhand trivia...
...gets lost and drives the party a whole day's journey off course into the veld. As drawn by Tiny, the White Hunter barely has brains enough to come in out of the rain. ("Bit of a mist, what?") With the constant physical discomforts and the incessant comic relief of The Nylon Safari, it sometimes seems that the grandeur and excitement of Africa itself rarely caught Tiny Cloete's eye. The Cloetes' closest brush with danger came when a young hippo lost track of his papa and mamma and charged at the rear of their...
...Made Moon," a comic opera in one act by Joel M. Mandelbaum '53, will have its first performance tonight in Paine Hall. Peter G. Neumann '54, Robert A. Cortwright '58, and Peter J. Achinstein '56 head the cast...
...plum, and Anna Magnani swallows it whole; skin, pit and all. She is little short of overpowering when she goes into one of her frequent states of towering rage, and when she sulks she seems like a fury with nobody but herself to haunt. Best of all are the comic scenes, which she plays with the broad and leering satisfaction of a peasant. Burt Lancaster tries hard as the bachelor-clown, but even in his most successful moments he appears almost pathetically outclassed...
...Ulysses diminishes . . . from comic epic to the curiosity of a learned crossword puzzle and, as such, a major, unrequited European export to the scholar-technicians of the American universities. They find more and more in it, as we find less and less...