Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quotations above indicate, "You Touched Me" frequently depends for its humor on the shock of ribaldry, but while it's not as tender as "The Glass Menagerie" it's never really vulgar...
Expertly angled and written, with valid emotion, some fine humor and a laudable lack of pseudo-common-mannishness, these speeches should be an effective device for encouraging internationalism. The images which are set against them are even more so. Though some of the material-notably some great shots of the Norman shore-is familiar from newsreels, it has the power of a musical theme, triumphantly recapitulated...
...Hammerstein has written a screen play as pleasing and deft as his lyrics. If the picture had delicacy and imagination to match its competence and good humor -and if its pastoral charm had real outdoor authenticity, instead of a germless soundstage look-State Fair might have become an entertainment classic. As it stands, it should be a solid...
McKnight took offense at a letter published in the Spectator from John Crossett, Columbia '46, editor of the Jester, undergraduate humor magazine. As a result, Crossett resigned his position, but in his last issue before resignation, he published a front-page editorial blast denouncing the Emergency Council for "toadying" to McKnight's whims...
...Emergency Council struck back by barring distribution of all copies of the Jester to which were not stapled a mimeographed letter expounding the Emergency Council's position and deprecating the stand of the humor magazine. This act, along with that of the student government in naming the editors of the Spectator, is generally regarded as being without precedent in the recent history of Ivy League colleges...