Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humor Is No Vice. There are a few, though, who look at the G.O.P. candidate from another angle. The Philadelphia Inquirer's Hugh Hutton accents Goldwater's forehead and sharpens his nose to give him "the perceptive look of a man who knows what he is doing...
...most striking feature about all the attempts to portray Barry is that none of the cartoonists has yet drawn a face that reflects any really successful attempt at humor. Perhaps the reasons are the seriousness of the political argument and the strong emotional response that Goldwater evokes. Yet a moderate amount of humor in the exercise of cartooning is certainly no vice, and a total absence of it might become extremely intolerable...
...someone who had not read the play think it a comedy--and not a very good one at that. Director Donald Mullin has chosen to deemphasize all that is grim about the play--which is precisely the element that makes it Congreve's masterpeice--and to focus on the humor. Unfortunately the humor falls flat...
...humor falls flat because the actors are trying too hard. Half of them be have as though they are in an elocution match. They are like men trying to crack a bull whip who have not yet got the knack of it. They all seem to believe that if they just say their lines crisply enough, or forcefully enough, they will get a laugh...
...whichever is the case, it is strange that Mullin should have expected a 20th Century audience to respond to Restoration with which, according to tradition at least, was too complex for a Restoration audience. And it is strange, too, that he should have relied on the spectacle and the humor for his chief effect, when he had an audience already accustomed to facing unpleasant realities whenever they enter the theater. If Congreve's play was before his time, Mullin's production is behind...