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...theatrical circles, Berle is best known for his amiable inability to resist the temptation to "lift" the material of other comedians, to such an extent that a fellow comic. Jack Osterman, walking down Broadway with still a third comedian, and seeing Berle billed in front of a theatre, is supposed to have suggested, "Let's go in and catch our acts...
...created such a demand for severity in law enforcement that there has grown with that demand a laxity in observance by law officers of those rights which it is fatal to ignore, even though that ignoring results in the entrapment of the guilty." Lawyer Lilleston of Kansas was the comic relief. He called himself "the forgotten...
...almost all of the pictures depicting the Sacco-Vanzetti affair merge on caricature, there is more of art than mere clever distortion in these gouaches. When the exhibit appeared at the Downtown Gallery in New York City, many were inclined to dismiss the whole of Shahn's work as comic-strip treatment of more serious topics, yet even the poignancy that speaks from each picture is testimony that there is something more permanent than grim humor here...
High point of the performance is a song, "Across the River," composed by the playwright and sung by David (Walter Richardson). If you liked The Green Pastures, 01' Man Satan should remind you in spots of that more profound, more seriously comic predecessor...
...some fifty years standing in Harvard. These methods have been and still are, in the main, scientific, emphasizing the historical changes which condition art, or its sociological and economic causes. But the approach which gives literature its chief significance and uncovers its closest bonds with the serious and comic business of living is the personal, informal, circumspect way of feeling out of a poem its final emotional substance and seeing how it jibes with ones' own experience. It may be said with truth that literature is not taught in a rigidly scientific manner in Harvard. The real fact is that...