Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Night in Casablanca. The maniacal humor of the Marx Brothers, uneven but more than adequate (TIME...
...drama of these people is that they have recoiled from drama, are unfit for drama-can only poke around in the cupboard of memories and might-have-been. That, too, is the pathos of them. But it is a pathos that Chekhov sharply rings with humor and partly punctures with insight. Always compassionate, he is never deceived. The wand he waves to evoke moods suddenly becomes a scalpel that lays motives bare. He sees all that is flabby-and all that is funny-in these people who make mournfulness their métier...
...consistently refused papal offers of a cardinalate), his overwhelming love which inspired many of Rome's bright young men to enter the church, and the mystic fervor with which he communed with God (it was difficult for him to say mass without being transfixed by ecstasy). His humor lay in the bizarre penances he exacted at confession and the outlandish antics with which he humbled his own pride...
Anything for a Laugh. Somehow, between trips to speaks, gag-minded Norman Anthony made humor-magazine history. In 1922 he became editor of Judge. Within a year he lifted its sagging circulation from 30,000 to 100,000 by substituting cartoons for most of its heavy-footed text. The old Life lured him away with the then-unheard-of bait of $35,000 a year and 10% of the profits. Anthony lifted Life's face. He put its dignified owner, Charles Dana Gibson, back to work at his trade of illustrator, dropped Walter Winchell, took on Odd Mclntyre...
Then Anthony made his big killing with a flash success called Ballyhoo (top circ. 2,000,000), which was full of pretty good and not so good humor based on the repetition of the name Zilch. Ballyhoo satire on American advertising made so much money for Editor Anthony during the depression that he had a hard time staying broke. But he did: he blew it on a Broadway revue, on a trip to Europe (which bored him), on openhanded loans, on the horses, on bigger-than-ever drinking bouts...