Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was little that was sensational about Mr. Russell's lecture. It was featured by clarity and profundity of thought and sprinkled with the gently cynical humor for which he is noted. Mr. Russell began by asserting the necessity for some sort of authority in education, and then spoke briefly of he various mediums by which this authority had been and would always, presumably, be exercised. These mediums he classified as the state, the church, the schoolmaster, and the parent. He spoke of the inadequacy of each to exercise the authority which it possessed: for each, he declared, had some...
...excellent ones; but not until "The Thief of Bagdad" has there been one that could be considered quite its equal. Half a dozen pictures might be mentioned which are rich in historical interest or beautiful in pictorial setting, but none of them have had the charming romance and clean humor which lift "The Thief of Bagdad" above lesser productions...
...that they have come and gone. But the book will be of no small value to the professional reviewer of the screen, as well as the earnest student of the cinema, if there be any such. It is filled with information, treated with a saving grace of humor. The writer lists the best pictures within the period covered by his book, as follows : Nanook of the North, Grandma's Boy, Blood and Sand, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Eternal Flame, Shadows, Oliver Twist, Robin Hood, Peg o' My Heart, When Knighthood Was in Flower, Driven, The Pilgrim, Down...
...When Humor, Wit and Persiflage...
...last, sigh of the thirsty. Take it as a peace offering and an evidence from Boston, and its City Hall that Harvard still holds a high place in its esteem and respect, and a sporadic case of bad manners is not the standard of Harvard conduct. Even the ghastly humor, and tragic dialect of the Lampoon will not wring our winners or change our views...