Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the drama's humor is of a puckish sort; it involves the archaic formalism of the Masters, or the shrewishness of Eva's nurse Magdelene. Eunice Alberts sang a delightfully sprightly nurse, but Thomas Hayward (her fumbling lover David) did not give his movements and voice color and conciseness and consistency necessary to a humor ostensibly quaint. So also James Billings as Beckmesser, Walther's rival for Eva, effectively deadened Wagner's critique of professional narrow-mindedness with his ill-controlled buffoonery...
...staging too often did not fit the music's classical and stylistic humor: the second act riot needed classical, almost Elizabethan motions and its badly organized fisticuffs matched badly the music's careful development. The choruses fell apart several times (conspicuously in the final scene) but well made up for it with their smooth blocking and infectious spirit...
...publications field. The Agencies' position remains essentially what it was during the HSA-Yearbook struggle over the formation of Calendar in 1958: HSA will not sponsor any agency competing with the "central core effort" of an existing student publication. That is, HSA will not publish a daily newspaper, a humor magazine, a yearbook, or a literary magazine, as long as the existing publications occupy these fields "adequately." The Agencies will not, on the other hand, promise to keep out of creative fields entirely...
...many fathers said they thought the meeting was informative and useful. Just as many thought it was part of a fund-raising campaign. They were unanimous in praising the "charm," "tremendous sense of humor" and "capableness" of Mrs. Bunting...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, treats the relationship of God and man with more humor than awe, but the superb acting of Fredric March and Douglas Campbell supplies the necessary power and the glory...