Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realizes that our greatest artists have almost always done a part of their student work in Europe, and that at present there are many Americans in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne. With this realization--if he is an American of understanding and a sense of humor--he sees that the background of art is largely "away from us", and that the student is benefited by an acquaintance with the atmosphere of the "old world". Then comes the recognition of the true value and meaning of the new "home of American artists" within the carved paneling and ancient...
...grass at the edge of a field back of his farmhouse in the Vermont hills. His large, nobly-formed head, with its loosely falling iron gray hair, bends slightly forward. He talks deliberately, softly, his somewhat piercing and remarkably blue eyes lighting now and then with mischievous humor. Frost was born in San Francisco. His father, a transplanted New Englander, was a newspaper man. His mother was Scotch. At the age of ten, however, Robert Frost was living in Massachusetts, and it is with the New England states that he is firmly associated. He left Dartmouth after a short...
...proper touch of comedy in the acting, although the dialogues were wont to drag at times. The opening scene between Miss Roach and Miss Laying, two country spinsters, was thoroughly amusing, yet without exaggeration. Mr. Kent as Eben Gooch furnished an excellent bit of acting, with his dry humor, kindliness, and philosophy. Mr. Gilbert's part was not difficult and he handled it creditably, giving just the proper touch of nonchalance to his role. Miss Bushnell deserves special commendation, for the understanding way in which she portrayed the loving high-spirited, proud, spiteful Elizabeth Her lines--quite difficult in spots...
...extremely limited. To the general reader it is bound to be about equally dull, confusing, ridiculous, and shocking. It is a book compounded in equal parts of the most painfully literal and the most elusively symbolic. The combination is a shade trying. And there is an irritating lack of humor. It is hard to sympathize with anyone who takes himself as seriously as do both Mr. Anderson and his hero. It is altogether too easy to allow one's sense of the ab- surdity of a good many of its episodes to cloud one's perception...
...Lenin is not in good health at all and needs something to amuse him, something like Beerbohm Tree's Hamlet, which Sir W. S. Gilbert said was funny, without being vulgar. Trotsky needs distraction and Litvinoff has a sense of humor and there is no earthly reason why Senator Borah should not have a really good time...