Word: comical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There will be other innovations. In line with NASA's new policy of allowing frivolous radio call names for spacecraft, the Apollo 10 crew has decided to call the command module "Charlie Brown" and the lunar module "Snoopy," after the characters in the Charles Schulz comic strip...
When a tragic hero is blinded, he assumes the grandeur of Oedipus; when a comic hero is blinded, he becomes as ludicrous as a mole. Moliere, the most serious writer of comedy who ever lived, took just such a blind mole and made him the mock hero of The Miser. Harpagon (Robert Symonds) has a singular obsession-money. Like most obsessions, it is not magnificent but malignant. It allows the great 17th century French dramatist to make a central moral point-that a sin is called deadly because it deadens. Harpagon is blind to his children's hope...
Marietta is unusually strong for a midwestern crew, and Notre Dame and Purdue should provide the comic relief for spectators. The Fightin' Irish made it to the semi-finals of the Dad Vail Regatta last week, and have beaten such teams as Worcester Poly, Amherst, and Grand Valley State (Mich.). Wisconsin killed Purdue in an early race, mounting only a 28-strokes per minute closing sprint to finish off the Boilermakers...
...FRENCHMAN'S sculptural imagination spans from serious to comic, from a relief of suffering refugees to a statue of the bizarre "Ratapoil," in a rippling tail coat, who symbolizes the evils of the Bonaparte government. It sweeps the eye around its angular limbs jabbing the air with elbow, beard, and a cane. Questions of authenticity begin with a group of bronze figures that resemble the bourgeois types of the Daumier lithographs, but are of unknown origin. The incredibly detailed catalogue points to subtle inconsistencies in style of these sculptures, hinting that they may have been copied from Daumier's lithographs...
...actor who stands out in this immensely talented group, it is Bill Moor as Harold, a 32-year-old Jew fairy" with a pock-marked face and a collection of pills he may be saving for an eventual suicide. Moore laces every line and expression with cynical, comic resignation; it is one of the most intense and perfected characterizations I have seen this year...