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...England, oldtime Cinema Comics Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, doing a personal appearance at a Newcastle theater, looked down their noses at the modern generation: "Present-day comedians, particularly those in America, gain laughs at the expense of someone else's discomfort. Insult gags are a crudity we avoid...
...great sway, he is a frightening performer. He jabs at every word with the bony fingers of his one hand. He has staked his future-and would stake Germany's-on the narrow and dangerous path of fervent nationalism and neutralism. Even in his own party, Schumacher causes discomfort; one high party colleague sarcastically refers to him as "my esteemed Reichsführer...
Long may this last, for our benefit, for the benefit of the fellow round the corner and for your benefit and to the discomfort of the fellows in the Kremlin. You have got just one more lesson to learn from this old country of ours. Take the nose-twigging gracefully. It's a sign of envy, and when we cease to be so-called "anti-American" it will be a sign that you have lost your vigorous health and ability to lead and be great...
Most of those who flocked to Perpignan thought little of the discomfort. Said Soprano Jennie Tourel, who gave stirring performances of Mozart and Bach arias: "Casals literally radiates music. He just makes you sing." Said Pianist Rudolf Serkin, whose Beethoven and Bach sonatas with Casals were festival high points: "Without looking at him you feel all his intentions. We understand each other like an old happily married couple...
...eyed man holds out his hands in silent frustration. In The Indomitable Bather, Ayrton catches the humor and pathos of a more familiar subject, "a small boy who finds it bloody cold in the water, but his passionate desire to stay there is greater than the physical discomfort. He feels violently about it, but doesn't say anything, just stands there shivering to death, poor little blighter...