Word: formats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sense of Humor contains humorous writing, but very title of it is Potter's; it also contains some interesting ideas on the evolution of the British sense of humor. The format, however, is ridiculously ambitious. One finds oneself hoping that the conceptural scheme of the work is a literary practical joke, or "lifemanship" in practice by the master. Whether it is or not, Sense of Humor proves that humor, like children, is best seen and not heard about...
Although it is often a great asset in conveying this painful confusion and the emotional entanglements of the characters to the audience, the theatre-in-the-round format is a mixed blessing. It is superbly adapted to the examination in which the audience finds itself inside the Salem meeting house; but the last scene is considerably marred by lack of the finality that a drawn curtain could rectify, and set changes are unduly disturbing throughout...
...published on the Continent. Strongly antiCommunist, the paper is also an outspoken friend of the U.S., a proponent of free capitalism, a supporter of German rearmament, and a skeptic about the possibilities of permanent peaceful coexistence. N.Z.Z. is in no hurry to print breaking news, and its tabloid-size format is dull. It prints titles instead of headlines, and its circulation (70,000) is small. Yet it is must reading for such diverse political experts as Pundit Walter Lippmann and Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
...eight page magazine will publish original poems and poetical criticisms. "We hope to inaugurate discussions and review current events in poetry," editor Ralph N. Maud '53 said. "It is unpresumptuous in format and in price, but we hope it will continually surprise people by the high value of its contributions...
...motion-picture format has detracted from certain aspects of the play, it has added to others. The backgrounds--particularly the cathedral and market-place of Siena and the Ca' D'Oro in Venico--are triumphantly beautiful, and the costuming is luxuriant. Although many of the interior tableaux are more reminiscent of the Flemish painters, the actors have been decked out after a rogue's gallery of Italian Renaissance portraits...