Word: joke
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Moto Perpetuo" (Musical Joke), First time at these concerts, Strauss...
...well or ill, in high spirits or low, I am always equal to tragedy, but comedy is a serious business." He meant that comedy requires an amount of earnestness and depth that is not usually given to it. An actor, while thoroughly appreciating it must always take a joke seriously, otherwise the humor is lost. Dogberry, for example, when he hears that the lady Hero was slandered, says "Flat burglary as ever was committed." He saw nothing peculiar in the word "burglary." So the actor must be perfectly serious and speak in good faith...
...lends itself better to narration and comment than to the making of any lively or complete impressions of our complex academic life at the passing moment. Dr. Birkbeck Hill was evidently deceived in one or two minor traits of college civilization by undergraduates with a taste for the American joke. In the main, this English writer's statements are correct, his few strictures richly deserved, his generous praise well bestowed...
...have thrown down enough old boards to have made at least a temporary walk over the worst of that very muddy place near the street. Fortunately people who go to football games are accustomed to inconveniences, and so the crowd was inclined to regard the whole affair as a joke...
Schumann's first Symphony was appropriately chosen, for it is called the "Spring Symyhony," his own title, because the idea is supposed to be counected with Spring. This Symphony was written when Schumann was not thoroughly acquainted with the orchestra, and the joke of his writing too low notes for the horns and trumpets, ignorant of the fact that they could not be played, is well known. The finale is very masterly and impressive, with solemn trombone passages and well worked out. The Symphony was played with excellent spirit and expression...