Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This type of writing, except for one or two decidedly anachronistic excresences, passed quietly away after the wane of Gold Coast Harvard. With the passing of a Harvard "type"--the well-dressed, "well-bred," socially conscious, prep-schooled, glib-talking, worldly, wealthy-son type of undergraduate, humor, both self-directed and outwardly directed, fell off sharply. Even today, a cursory glance at the kind of undergraduate publications at Harvard shows an overwhelming preponderance of the intense and earnest variety...
...course, the Depression and the mounting of world problems, coupled with an increasing undergraduate awareness of the magnitude and immediacy of such problems, were not at all conducive to a humorous perspective. But this alone cannot explain the remarkably abrupt falling-off of the satires and parodies that were legion between the years 1910 and about 1930. It has been said that humor, or attempts at it, is the property of a particular sort of mind--a mind which is either frenetic or dormant enough to see the incongruity of situations or vocations. Humor, and especially satire and parody, requires...
Their support, while not outstanding, was certainly adequate. Jay Schuchter and Mare Brugnoni, as Banquo and Macduff, are reliable in every instance, and Edgar Walsh handles the role of young Malcolm with remarkable sympathy. Harry Bingham provides a moment of good Shakespearean humor as the porter...
When we say that we have lost incalculably in intelligence, humor, and human kindness, we can see Bob's face, brooding for a moment before he can find and utter his implacable, unanswerable comment on these trite phrases...
...conceivably the best undergraduate story published so far this fall, Gerald Gillespie competently unravels the mysterious adventures of "the mighty and fabulous Alphonso Fitzpatrick." The Kafkacsque plight of the hero is overcome with fancy and humor...