Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lampoon material usually falls into four types of humor and each is represented in the current issue. The first is the "technique of thrusting the unnatural into the natural situation." In this group are Eric Wernt worth's High Water and Dick Elwell's The Man Who Saved the World. Wentworth begins with a fairly commonplace event a spring flood. What make this deluge different is the appearance of an eighteenth century English ship which is looking for the Northwest Passage. The flood releases the ship from a sandbar and it floats into a town crew and all. I think...
...final two stories represent the most obvious and most used type of humor distortion of events or other literature. Norman Pettit's Island Sunset is. I think a satire on Hemingway's style. Petit uses the same short action packed sentences to build and atmosphere which would not be out of place in a Hemingway work. It is however very easy to imitate Hemingway's style without touching his character and plot development and that is all Pettit has done...
...Love Lucy (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS) is an untrammeled TV comedy show distinguished by the high-quality slapstick of carrot-topped Comedienne Lucille Ball and her handsome Cuban-born husband, Desi Arnaz. Filmed especially for television in Hollywood, Lucy's combination of well-written scripts and rowdy good humor proved popular enough last month to displace both Arthur Godfrey and Milton Berle, and thus became the nation's No. i TV attraction...
Since the dead man was over forty, his friends called him "grandpop" with many affectionate chortles. This is the general level of the film's humor. In fact, it is one of the funnier things in the show...
...James McReynolds, who later became one of the crustiest conservative Justices of the Supreme Court and a target of Franklin Roosevelt's famed failure, the court-packing plan. A lifelong Democrat, elevated to the district court by Roosevelt in 1940, Pine is known for his independent thinking, dry humor, incisive judgments on the law. These qualities were evident last week as he heard steel company and Government lawyers debate two injunctions requested by the steelmen: 1) ordering the President to return their properties on the ground that they were illegally seized, and 2) forbidding any Government-imposed wage increases...