Word: humorlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creation of a onetime farm boy named Harold Lincoln Gray, Annie ranks as one of the most durable, reactionary, humorless and lucrative little brats in the history of the funnies. In 40 years she has poured nearly $5,000,000 into Artist Gray's pocket-a figure that does not, to be sure, put him in Daddy Warbucks' class; Daddy is several times a billionaire. Even today, despite evidence of a waning national interest in the comics, Annie still reaches a paid readership of 30 million...
...McLuhan is not playing games. He is in humorless earnest. And if the book is taken seriously, it must be judged as fuzzy-minded, lacking in perspective, low in definition and data, redundant, and contemptuous of logical sequence-which is to say that McLuhan has perfectly illustrated the cool qualities he most values in communications. McLuhan's solemn pseudo science at work: "What do we know about the social or psychic energies that develop by electric fusion or implosion when literate individuals are suddenly gripped by an electromagnetic field, such as occurs in the new Common Market pressure...
Advance to the Rear. Since any departure from formula comedy seems worthy, a slapstick farce about the Civil War perhaps deserves a nod for trying a different attack. This frolic manages, however, to be unremittingly fast, flip, energetic, and for the most part humorless. Based on a sober historical novel by Jack Schaefer (Shane), the movie attempts to spark laughs by logging the misadventures of Company Q, a detachment of Yankee misfits led by inept Colonel Melvyn Douglas and his wry-smiling lieutenant, Glenn Ford. The boobs under their command include a firebug, a flagpole sitter, a kleptomaniac, a skittish...
...Shahn's cover picture of Lenin speaks of Communism with an eloquence as powerful as Dostoevsky's The Possessed. Here is Lenin's face, not the likeness that God gave him at birth, but the likeness of the twisted, humorless, mad, rationalized world he built for his followers. That cramped, despotic teaching hand is the perfect portrait of a Communist textbook or a Party meeting...
...Tall, humorless Ian Douglas Smith is a rough customer. As a Spitfire pilot with the R.A.F. during World War II, he survived a crash that left the right side of his face paralyzed, was later shot down over Italy and fought for five months with Italian partisans behind the German lines. After the war, under former Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, Smith served in the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly. But Sir Roy did not believe in complete independence from Britain, and Smith split with...