Word: humor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appalled by Master Shinagel's remarks about Quincy's dining hall checkers. Shinagel implied to The Crimson that his comments were a joke and that those who find them offensive are humorless dullards. We hope that other members of the Harvard community will agree that his remarks displayed no humor, but revealed a narrow mind and shocking insensitivity. Elizabeth A. Szanto '86-7 Susan M. Dynarski...
...high-class black men's club, which practices its own form of race discrimination. Prospective members are traditionally given a "paper bag" test: only those with skin lighter than the bag are asked to join. The messages are soft-pedaled, however, in favor of funky atmosphere, fragments of offhand humor and characters refreshingly free of sitcom shtick. No big laughs, but not Big Band either...
Granted, the script of Charley is almost foolproof (thus its appeal, I suppose, for actors and directors). Because the play is a farce, its humor depends almost entirely on plot, rather than on more difficult elements like character development...
...plot creates humor in this comedy of manners through its byzantine machinations and convolutions. Incredible coincidences pull the characters into embarrassing situations, and only even more incredible coincidences can pull them...
...overtones of morbidity and homosexuality in the friendship of Antonio and Bassanio, and partly because of the characters' anti-Semitism toward Shylock. The Currier House Drama Society production of Merchant tries to lessen audience anxiety by addressing these issues in novel ways and by taking advantage of opportunities for humor in what is, after all, supposed to be a comedy...