Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business as described in countless TV shows, movies, novels and magazine stories that draw drama from the roar of the blast furnace or the power play in the executive suite. There is room on the bestseller list for a socio-economic study-The Organization Man, Judd Saxon, a comic strip based on business, runs in 160 newspapers. Yet, as Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Vice President Leland Hazard complained last week: "The daily press just doesn't seem to be set up to look in depth into business problems...
...world-renowned director Tyrone Guthrie proved to be a gifted comic actor as well at his talk in New Lecture Hall last Thursday. After being introduced (or "eulogized," as he put it), he asked permission to doff his jacket, did so, undid his tie, rolled up his sleeves and unbuttoned his shirt. With navel displayed, he gave his ideas on "The Director in the Theatre," after assuring his large audience that "there ain't no one right way of doin' anything...
John Colicos is a warm Leonato and Stanley Bell a prim Don Pedro. As Claudio, Richard Easton is better in comic moments than in serious ones; but he is developing nicely as an actor and shows good potential. Hero has little to do but look beautiful, which Lois Nettelton has no trouble in doing. Morris Carnovsky is a delightful Antonio as he hiphops about in a fussy, ineffectual manner...
...supporting roles provide several fine vignettes: Tom Bosley does fine double duty as the double-talking broker and the sad, flower-loving sewer man; Ned Murphy actually plays the guitar as the street-singer who knows only the first two lines of his song; and Lance Cunard is a comic Dr. Jadin, who believes that "as the foot goes, so goes...
Your story about the Santa Fe Opera Association [July 15] contained yet another instance of man's inhumanity to librettists. One might assume that The Tower is an opéra sans paroles. Could there be no mention of no-longer-so-young (32) U.S. Comic Poet Townsend T. Brewster, who wrote the text...