Word: humorizing
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...form in "Though Wisdom Dies." Wisdom is a theme which cannot be completely developed in two short stanzas nor can imagination be "uncurled small as forget-me-nots." The characteristics of the verse of this number are cleverness, insight, a sure, light touch, and a sense of the sober humor of the contrasts of life...
...Larkin discovers in Charlestown a grave-digger whose gruesome sense of humor helps the author to an understanding of a scene in "Hamlet." The narrative of the encounter is paradoxically pleasant...
...play has, until this revival, never been acted in Boston--a strange fact when one considers the human interest and particularly the humor that it yields in actual performance. The fat Knight and his followers appear in their most amusing vein; the old King presents a moving figure of a dying monarch and father; and his son, Prince Hal, is a most interesting character study of the mind and heart of one who combines humanity and loyalty...
...last act takes place in an ante-room in Hampton Court Palace. King Henry is here seen at his best and kept the audience in high good humor over his buffoonery. The act closes with the heroine in the hero's arms and a ridiculous clap-trap stage device showing the Celtic shores appearing through the royal tapestry on the walls...
...Adventurers" is not up to the family standard, nor as good as some other poems in this same issue. The standard surprise story which every Advocate has contained since the misty days of the paper's beginnings is here also,--"A Matter of Taste." Is there, then, deliberate humor when Mr. Leffingwell bids us at the bottom of the page turn our thoughts "To Death. (From the French of Beaudelaire...