Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fantastic acting creation of the evening is Michael O'Sullivan's Tartuffe. It is appropriate, if amazing, to say that the ham in the actor reveals the pig in mankind. Sparing no excess of speech, gesture or mien, he performs a surrealistic wedding dance of malice and humor. Almost equal praise accrues to Richard Wilbur, the poet. Despite a slight trace of melodic monotony, his springy, intelligent couplets turn Molière's French into speakably idiomatic English...
From a detached viewpoint it's clear that "Casablanca" often wallows in second-rate humor and cheap sentimentality of the "Our Song" variety ("Play it again, Sam"). But, happily, it's easy to get in the mood for that sort of thing, and both Ingrid Bergman's charm and beauty, and Bogart's biting cynicism raise the film above the level of the ordinary gooey melodrama...
CARL NIELSEN: SYMPHONY NO. 2 (Vox). Sibelius' contemporary and compatriot subtitled his early, danceable symphony "The Four Temperaments" and assigned a different humor to each movement: choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic and sanguine (a sanguine man, according to Nielsen, is the sort who believes that "fried pigeons will fly into his mouth without work"). Conductor Carl Garaguly and the Tivoli Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra faithfully reproduce each mood...
...ghastly reality of the Birmingham slums, the miraculous reality that sensibility and humor somehow survive in them, the luminous reality of the Negro language as it is spoken in the South: all are set forth with force and sincerity. But what the film most effectively conveys is the anguishing reality of how it feels to be inside the skin of an American Negro. It feels, if the hero's experience is the general one, as if the 14th Amendment had not been psychologically ratified. "The white men!" the hero rages in despair. "They get inside...
Besoyan and his fetching cast are more mimics than satirists. Babes is pretty distant from William Shakespeare, but not from the humor of his groundlings. And when it comes to two amiably mind-free, cheerily untroubled hours in the theater, almost all playgoers are groundlings...