Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comrade Zhukov was disturbed by the cynicism of American journalists: "I hasten to assure [them]-Americans do not read only flat jokes on the pages of comic supplements. They read articles. Even on Sundays...
...Gill as the Earl of Mountararat does a fine job, singing intelligently and acting well. Fred Pratt is adequate as Earl Tolloler, and Norman Cazden is also satisfactory, though he will have to learn to stand still and not force his voice if he is to be a really comic Private Willis. The male chorus sings powerfully and with gusto, and looks quite as stupid as the Peers are supposed to be (although they could hold their ceremonial robes a bit less like Indian blankets...
Dashing Don Royce says, in defense of his receding hair line, that it's consoling to know that he'll never be old and grey. Is Tom Mullin any relation to the comic character, Moon? Eager Abe Zaleznik gets our vote as the eagerest individual in the unit--a certain roomie of ours notwithstanding. Dante Maggiotto and DeLoretto get the nod as the eagerest...
...published in the overseas edition, but printed in their 18 domestic editions, is the C.I.O. News's slyest attempt at sugarcoating: a comic strip called The Adventures aj Jim Barry, Trouble Shooter. Its hero, who gets off some occasional soap-boxing for "60 million jobs" while solving murder mysteries, is a labor editor who is tall, dark and politically unswerving. His latest triumph was uncovering a murder in a labor-management committee. The villain turned out to be, not the boss, as unsophisticated readers might have expected, but the attorney for "some stockholders." Trapped, the villain hissed...
...material, astutely unfolds most of its human little story in revealing little scenes. It is the more touching, too, for not being cheaply sentimental. It portrays unfortunate young people who are also, quite plainly, fiberless; it balances what is pathetic in the mother's situation with what is comic in her character. But The Glass Menagerie veers off from straight realism to become a kind of mood play, something projected as a "memory." It makes use of a narrator, filmy curtains. dim lights, atmospheric music. All this adds something, on occasion, as theater; but it takes away a good...