Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interwoven with the poetic freedom which portrays the more inexpressible thoughts of the woods is a subtle humor. In two unexpected lines, Vachel Lindsay summarizes neatly a whole political campaign. The couplet bears repeating for the benefit of staunch members of the Republican club...
...does the poet confine his line sketches to the medium of words: paradoxically enough, he uses the medium of letters. All through the book are little pen drawings built up of alphabetic script distorted to form pictures. Here too, humor pops up without warning, notably in the sketch of a whirlwind going up a flower. In short, he who reads "The Candle in the Cabin" will find psychological symbolism verging on the profound and subte wit verging on the hilarious...
...spirit is a group of four choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience". Music, it has been said, is the most emotional of the arts, but the emotion of laughter has perhaps never been so well expressed as when Sir Arthur Sullivan succeeded in incorporating in his melodies the humor of Gilbert's words...
...stage, enacts for the fourth time in the U. S. (the first, 1898) the fortunes of those shockingly Bohemian actors and actresses who strutted in famed Sadler's "Wells" during the reign of good Queen Victoria. To the zip-gobbling audiences of this day, the play offers mellow humor and pathos-qualities whose commercial values are doubtful. To the student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny has created a young playwright-one whose theories and struggles against the theatrical traditions of the time were those of Sir Arthur himself...
...Treat Me That Way?" was its name, they said. "After some little mental torture", Lewis said, "I gave up, when suddenly it occurred to me that the tune in question was 'How Can You Do Me Like You Do?' And that was my best impression of typical English humor...