Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Restoration England, and its freshness rang welcome on ears tired by the flourishes of grand opera. The story of the mythical lovers, somewhat perverted to Restoration conventions, is told with only three chief characters and only three or four main episodes, yet one cannot mistake the genuineness of its humor or the poignancy of its emotion. It touches true music-drama much closer than does the Handelian form. Unlike operas of the type of Acis and Galatea, Venus and Adonis is unmarred by the intrusion of spoken dialogue. Blow has managed to weld its short airs with the recitatives...
Biology D is a very good elementary course under the able leadership of Professor Hisaw. Hisaw's trump is his wonderful sense of humor which overcomes any delinquencies in his organization. Darrah in the first half year is not so well liked but is considered helpful. This is an excellent course for non-concentrators...
...glummer President, reading the reports to the press, might just as honestly have emphasized the bottlenecks, the shortages at hand and to come. But Franklin Roosevelt, beaming like Jack Horner with a plum on his thumb, dismissed his press conference in high humor, with an air of bring-on-the-next-problem, haul-this-one-away...
...particularly good for a student who is not too well grounded; if you're hot, try to get MacLane. In 2, for good men Huntington is excellent. Furthermore he is eminently worth getting to know as a person, and in his classes is best known for his sense of humor, Chances are that he will retire this year, but be sure to check up and see whether he actually has. In the same course, Widder makes you work hard, but is perhaps the clearest teacher in the department, and Whitney is adequate and fairly easy going. As to Math...
...everything about it, though you may say it is better than Remarque's "Flotsam," from which it derives its plot, you can not get around the fact that it lasts almost two hours, and that it is depressing for every single minute of that time. Even the touches of humor can not bring it out its morbid depths. This is the kind of movie that is to be appreciated, not enjoyed...