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...probity about a man of wit and probity, Sir Thomas More. On the comedy front, A Thousand Clowns lives up to its title, and rings merry changes on the slightly tired subject of nonconformity. In its second season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary remains a wisecrackling funfest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Aug. 17, 1962 | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

Bosley Crowther (and many others) urged me to see an "absolutely staggering" picture--a funfest of wild drinking, bad words, sexy scenes and naughty thoughts, with a few fat moral issues to cement them together in the plot. But this movie is not a celebration of barbarism, nor even a squalid stripping of souls on the "Marty" bandwagon. If you arrive drunk or depressed you may not enjoy yourself, because there are admittedly some pretty unpleasant scenes. Your date may not enjoy herself, because there's no heroine to identify with...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Each Night and Every Morning | 4/10/1962 | See Source »

...fresco soiree that was Hallowe'en isn't the funfest figured on by preadolescents, serious Cantabrigians concluded early yesterday morning. Harvard Square merchants, who have been dishing out much soft soap these past months, found the tables turned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All Hallowe'en Fun Not So Funny | 11/2/1946 | See Source »

...midst of undergraduate opinions which are rigidly conventionalized or humbly quiescent, it is decidedly refreshing to discover an opinion that is neither. Your Saturday correspondent's communication on "Bear at Class Meetings" presents an issue, which, even after the CRIMSON's slaughtering funfest remains for our solution. To me that has always seemed a tyrannical custom which has imposed the use of beer at all class banquets or smokers. My interpretation of the purpose of a class gathering may be unfounded but I hold it to be true that such functions should be representative of the best opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/20/1915 | See Source »

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