Word: comics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became a composer after a brief, uproarious and distinguished career as a conductor; wrote tone poems which, in the U. S. at least, remain his most popular work. Of these, Don Juan is perhaps the most celebrated; Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks (one of the few genuinely comic bits of music ever created) frames in melody the "owl-glass" legends of a fantastic buffoon who once annoyed staunch German burghers; Death and Transfiguration is a profoundly magnificent effort to encompass a theme more holy than most which have engaged its author's attention...
...this festival Wilfred Pelletier, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, had arranged the production of the first known comic opera, Le Jen de Robin et Marion, written by Adam de la Halle 700 years ago, in the century of the troubadours...
...authorities appear to be alarmed but remain apathetic. It is time something is done about it. Accordingly, we take this opportunity of asking the university authorities to remove from Oxford those who are responsible for the phenomenon, which would be faintly comic were it not apt to produce such extremely unpleasant results...
America might have been spared an anachronism if the college comic had either cut collegiatism from its pages in the beginning, or let fly the first stones where they would have done the most good. Now it is too late. While the death struggle goes into its last horrible stages one is struck less by the pathos of it all, than by its inherent hopelessness...
Copley at 8.30--"He Walked in Her Sleep". Supplants "The Wrecker" as the Copley's Conscious Comic Contribution...