Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Artistic ability and humor are the important qualities for arts and cuts candidates. Assignments will be given and will form a basis on which the merits of the various competitions will be judged...
...raids, and ravages the American outposts. About these three a rapidly shifting melodrama of death, pasion, and mad action revolves with bewildering intensity. Indian raids, banquets, panoramic rides of rescue, fort-storming, and cavalry charges of fighting patriots succeed each other. Deep touches of pathos, and fleeting moments of humor--some ridiculous, some gruesome--are mixed through. The scenes are all emotional to the extreme. When the play is over there is hardly a normal heart in the theatre. The effect is much the same as that of a football game, leaving every spectator limp from exhaustion...
...Doran Co. published a book, Behind the Scenes, written by me. One John Anderson, a critic, wrote as follows in the Literary Review: 'Goldwyn has written one of the funniest books of the season, presumably without intending it.' Anderson cited the following as a particularly fine example of unconscious humor: 'If you can picture a flowering arbour and then picture the subsequent surprise of finding inside of it a perfectly good dynamo you will have conceived the full force of Miss [Geraldine] Farrar's personality. . . . Indeed the figure with which I started falls short of conveying the full effect...
...than usual. Such an impression, of course, is helped materially by Dr. Murdock's article on the tribulations and philosophies of "the office", in which he points out some of the more or less unsuspected points of contact between administrator and undergraduate, and pleads wisely for a sense of humor and more truly representative expressions of the opinion of "the student body." This sanity, too, is reflected in the editorials that thrust neatly, though somewhat smugly, at the prevailing critical attitude toward the University...
Here is Barrie leaping the barriers of restraint. The play brims with mocking, alert humor, almost Gilbertian in the intent to set the world right by standing it on its head. It is filled with nimble characterization, satirizing everything boldly, from headwaiters to financial heirarchs. But it is a question whether the tired business man will quite enjoy being banged over the head so liberally...