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Word: comically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel's end, Chester Nimmo, over 21, is clean of illusions", and ready for whatever further adventures life and Author Gary have in store for him. That there will be more seems likely, for Chester Nimmo has captured the next best thing to Joyce Gary's comic genius, his endless curiosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up from Poverty | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Space Patrol. In Detroit, suing for divorce, Mrs. Sylvia Skolski charged that her husband Thomas had become "obsessed with the idea that space ships will land on earth. He reads pulp magazines and comic books for hours, excluding me from his company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Richard Armour, famed comic poet, whose light verse fills the Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker weekly, has commented on the recent charges of Senator McCarthy in a letter to the CRIMSON. He Says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comic Poet Armour Attacks Recent Charges by McCarthy | 11/13/1953 | See Source »

...ingredients of Almanac are the revue staples--satiric sketches, comic monologues, and production numbers. Even more stubbornly than the usual revue, however, the show makes no attempt to tie them with a cohesive thread. The only common elements of the scenes are the superb settings by Pene Du Bois and Thomas Becher, innocuous and infinitely forgettable music by a dozen composers, and a general sophistication which often seems precious. Particularly expressive of these three elements are a "Ballet Ballad" from a story by Oscar Wilde and the opening number, pretentiously invoking the Spirit of Theatre and dull musically, yet striking...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: Almanac | 11/12/1953 | See Source »

With its front page still carrying stories about the Greenlease kidnaping case (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.), the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week printed a brief announcement on its comic page in place of two popular comic strips: "The Buz Sawyer and Steve Roper serial strips have been omitted. They will not be restored until after the kidnaping episodes in both strips, which may be offensive to many readers at this time . . ." After the announcement appeared, the paper was flooded with letters, many approving the P-D's move. But other readers were just as strong against dropping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Matter of Taste | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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