Word: humours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Giggles, smiles, and laughs may be come a legitimate part of classroom life in the Yard next year if an unconfirmed report spread last night that Groucho Marx has been appointed professor of Humour is proved to be true...
Lampoon president Coles H. Phinizy '42 announced that his am would take an uncompromising stand in favor of Marx. "We prefer Groucho's teachings to Karl's," he said wittily. "We're going to demand a survey course called Elements of Humour A in which a good pun would guarantee a gentleman witster's C in the final exam. We also want a graduate seminar, Pornography...
Christmas recordings there are aplenty, to suit every taste and humour. Recorded by Victor on the Baroque organ at the Germanic Museum is Volume 111 of J. S. Bach's Little Organ Book, to my mind the least interesting of the month's releases. The precludes in the volume, written for Christmas and the New year, are dry and colorless, the kind of hack work every composer turns out at some time or other, which had much better be forgotten. Nor does Biggs's jumbled, unclear performance add anything to the music. A different story are the Bach Chorales sung...
John Milton in L'Allegro is referring to Ben Jonson as a writer of comedy, Jonson's forte. Of Jonson's ten chief works eight are comedies (Every Man in his Humour, Every Man out .of his Humour, Cynthia's Revels, The Poetaster, Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fayre); only two are tragedies (Sejanus, Catiline...