Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less curious lad might have let himself go to intellectual seed on a diet of comic books and TV westerns. But when seven-year-old Bruce Frankel of Interlaken, N.J. was kept home from school last fall with a kidney infection, he took to watching television quiz shows. One day he announced: "Presidents are my category." He began reading up on the men of the White House, with all the enthusiasm of a young Harry Truman...
...More than Fantasy. Journalist Fleming, who, as Strix, writes a weekly essay for the Spectator, has composed a tragicomic record, a record in which the farcical is merely punctuation. If it is often the comic more than the serious that comes through, it is in part because of his own ingrown habit of mocking at perils-including his own-and, more important, because the world already knows well the sorrows and dangers and heroics that went into Great Britain's rise from disaster to victory, and needs no somber reiteration of them. Better, perhaps, to be able to smile...
Knock's bored aloofness instead of swaggering magnetism mars the second act and destroys the delicate balance between comedy and satire. In place of a series of quick, witty repartees between Knock and his clients, we have a succession of labored interviews which destroy the comic and bury the satiric...
Barry Morse as the iconoclastic John Tanner plays with deft versatility which succeeds in both the comic scenes and the more serious Don Juan in Hell interlude. Opposite Morse is Nancy Wickwire who sparkles as Tanner's impish, if unwanted, suitor. As the sentimental slush Octavius Robinson, Michael Higgins is handsome, winsome, and properly Victorian...
...Negroes also appear in TV's Amos 'n' Andy (which most Negroes have long scorned as a patronizing comic strip...