Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themselves." Editor Edmund Valpy Knox hoped to appeal especially to ex-G.I.s who got acquainted with Britain in World War II. But even for total strangers, he believes that Punch will still pack a wallop. Said Editor Knox: "If you get down to the basic principles of humor, I think you will find that what makes people laugh is the same on both sides of the Atlantic...
Love and Learn (Warner), like Hit Parade (see above), is a comedy about songwriters trying to get ahead. But Hit Parade, by telling its story simply and with humor, and giving a reasonable facsimile of how entertainment people look and feel, is fairly pleasant. Love and Learn by telling its story with tinny wit, and shoving its inert characters through tortuous farcical situations, is rather a bore...
Dario differs from most novels about Fascism by presenting its villain as a reasonably sympathetic character. Dario's intrigues are necessary for his own survival. His megalomania is tempered by a sense of humor. His friendship for Correspondent Winner seems genuine. Winner, in turn, is both fascinated and repelled by Dario, whose skin-deep convictions are easily accommodated to the changing temperatures of Fascist politics...
...pedanties. Whether he is engrossed in debunking a scholar who purports to prove that someone else wrote Shakespeare's plays, describing and mimicking that maid-of-all-work, Fielding's Shamela Andrews, or stepping into the role of Charles Lamb's lunatic sister, this jovial son of Maine injects humor, pathos, and human interest into lectures that have earned him the epithet, "a one-man vaudeville show...
...finished "Speak For St. Joan," the choice between continuing the "Lampoon" and returning to left-over reading-period assignments should be a simple one. Even the cartoons, several of them by a prewar funnyman, will bring forth a heartier and more frequent chuckle than has resulted from local pictorial humor since candy bars were a nickel. In fact, the whole magazine, while seldom riotous, is the product of a wit that has too long been held in chains within the Bow Street Alcatraz...