Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warm Peninsula is a comedy, of course, and often funny. But the humor is in an aged gag-line form. (Iris Floria, an aged silent-screen siren, admits that she still takes milk baths. "But milk is so expensive now that I use Starlac!') The plot does not contain an intrinsically comic situation...
Fall begins colorfully. The leaves turn and professors display their preened or spontaneous humor. Before the initial enthusiasm of the first week's shopping tour has died away, we offer a few choice items which, in one way or another, are definitely bargains...
Incongruously juxtaposed to this, Professor Cherington in Lowell lecture hall (New Lecture Hall to old-timers) begins his bawdy bit about the workings of modern governments in Government la. Lecture-goers with less than cast-iron stomachs should instead try Emerson D where Dr. O'Clair talks with gurgling humor about the nineteenth century English novel (English...
...spring zephyrs are "cold-limbed ballet-girls waiting in the wings." There is the unflinching refusal to sacrifice art to the urgencies of politics: "Time for Sebastian was never 1914 or 1920 or 1936-it was always year 1." There is the verbal clowning, e.g., "optimystics," "sexaphone." Wit and humor often sugar-coat horror in Nabokov's novels, but the poignance of exile haunts his pages like a vestigial memory of original sin. From Sebastian Knight to Lolita, Nabokov has sprung ever more fascinating trap doors, and his ambiguous hell, like Sartre's, has no exit...
...Raisin in the Sun. There is no sun in this Chicago Negro tenement, but the characters who live there light up Lorraine Hansberry's first play with love, humor and dreams of escape...