Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acting is markedly superior to the general run of collegiate productions, with the Radcliffe girls adroitly putting their Harvard cousins into the background. Leslie Paul, Radcliffe '45, gives a well-polished performance as the sympathetic aunt, and Claire Pollack is much more than the comic family retainer. Marilyn Whisman in the title role, though inclined to be over-tragic in places, carries the role by her obvious sincerity. For Harvard, George Clay '43, makes the most of some comic lines, and Mendy Weisgal and Donald Gair, both '45, play the supporting role with conviction...
...Burnt Cork, owned by Negro Comic Rochester (Eddie Anderson), Jack Benny's radio stooge...
Lewis has attempted to bring together two diverse kinds of speech: realistic (the reproduction of natural conversation) and satiric (the reductio ad absurdum of natural conversation). Changing keys back & forth, some of the speech sounds wrong; most of it sounds more than right, being both natural and quintessentially comic. If Lewis is not the complete master of such language modulation, he has at least suggested the difficulties and rewards...
...responsible as they are free, that speech between the great regions may become more modest and exact, that respect for one another's differences and charity to ward one another's faults may be taught through the air and on the screen along with the tragi-comic curiosities of the news, and that not only the facts but the schemes of those who would make the facts their tools may be known and judged by a healthy world society...
Pravda ("Truth") is the name of the Party's own paper, the ultimate and august authority of Russian journalism, whose daily two-column front-page editorial is read at dictation speed on the Moscow radio so that editors in distant towns will please copy. There are no comic strips in Pravda (or in any Russian paper) and there is no department-store advertising; since the war began there have been four pages instead of six or eight; the editor is a professor of Marxist political science; Pravda has the austerity of Truth and it is a rare Russian...