Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True, the SDS politicos had no sense of humor. And, true, it was only when you explained the situation to yourself, not when you listened to their speeches, that their demands sounded proportional to the means they used. But the cops would probably come, so the situation would cease to be humorous, and your means would be dwarfed by the enemy's means. Besides, the demands were just--I was convinced even then that they were just-and since the occupation would take place in any case, why not support it while using it for your own purposes...
...these are at worst minor hitches, and at best strange contributions. Its shortness gives every excess, every idiosyncracy, a function in character establishment. The excessive repetition of line and gesture, for example, makes the characters look a little silly: it balances their very romantic notions and intense self-attention. Humor like this, putting the real sympathy these people evoke into perspective, is a blessing in an art and a college whose method these days is undisciplined over-seriousness
...victims with out a prayer of sexual gratification or a hope of companionship. From these unpromising fragments, James Leo Herlihy wrote a lyric blues ballad disguised as a novel. The film adaptation of Midnight Cowboy may grant that ballad too much orchestration, but it preserves its essential compassion and humor...
...dance scenes, in Ford show group activity in which each person's behavior is laid down by tradition. A fight scene in The Searchers (1956), for example, gives participants and spectators secure roles. The tension generated when one man picks up a stick of wood turns into warmth and humor when he sets it as a boundary marker. No such security comes from the sequence in How Green: Ford cuts from one face to another, showing his characters straining to create song as if for the first time. All the film's shots of masses of men have a specific...
...breaking-down of a certain society. We do not even see most of its dearest rituals until they are challenged. When Mr. Evans, the mine-owner, comes to ask Mr. Morgan for his daughter's hand, the class difference between them gives the scene a sort of tension and humor different from those in later Ford. The humor is directed at the awkwardness of persons, not at customs. The tension comes from their insecure situation, the failure of traditional behavior in a new situation. Indeed, every character's place in How Green is tenuous...