Word: humor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...word with regard to the verse appearing first in sequence in the October issue of the Harvard Monthly. Gleams of humor in it there undoubtedly are, but it is humor of a one-sided kind, which only persons of a certain class can enjoy, while others must not and cannot but regard it s insulting. Humor which depends for its power on injury to one class of men at Harvard, in order that the others may laugh, is not a help towards the broadness and religious toleration in which all Harvard men take pride. There are many Roman Catholics...
...from the court, giving the money got her. She explains to the magistrate that she has acquired the money by selling her jackdaw. Michael Cooney discovers a whole brood of jackdaws, and brings these to Joseph Nestor. There then arises a scene with a pungency and vigorous working of humor that would affect the most somber man in Ireland."The Workhouse Ward...
...success of "The Product of the Mill" will depend on the effect of the children and their speeches. They are much better written than anyof the other dialogues in the piece. There is a pathetic humor running through them that may prove deeply touching. Even in the manuscript, the picture of suffering childhood in the mill is vivid. On these elements of humanness the popular appeal of the play must rest, much more than upon the somewhat commonplace story that it tells.--Boston Transcript
...these plays, by Synge, William Butler Yeats, and Lady Gregory, there is a modern survival of the delicacy of feeling coupled with masculinity, the ardent love for nature, and the wit and humor which lent distinction to Celtic among ancient literatures. To obtain an idea of Ireland today, of her problems and aspirations (of which most of us in this country have but little knowledge) one can scarcely do better than see the Irish Players. N. J. O'CONOR...
...barbaric glitter and wayward humor of the numbers from Rimsky Korsakoff's early opera "Snegourotchka," the orchestra rose to a climax of brilliancy and real unity of ensemble, which constitute a very palpable executive achievement...