Word: applauding
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...Lenny matured, walking a lonely road in so many aspects of his craft, he relied less on boffo laffs. "Please don't applaud," he'd sometimes say on stage. "It breaks my rhythm." And in his last years, when he'd devote maybe an hour of his act to a recitation of his trial trials, Lenny was often still funny, but in a much drier, more serious context. (At the very end, he could be so stoned he could barely hold a mic, let alone an audience's attention.) Krassner asked Lenny how these lectures on the law squared with...
Whatever Johnson's sentiments, just about everyone else at the convention found it an exhilarating combination of barn raising and revival meeting. They hammered together their platform, belted out hymns and interrupted Roosevelt's acceptance speech 145 times to holler and applaud. When he closed with the best line from his first speech after the bolt--"We stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord"--they burst into what may still be history's loudest rendition of Onward, Christian Soldiers...
...competing with each other for profit and fame. In a world as brim full of the commercial and the exploitative as ours, Harvard should serve as a sanctuary of something higher. And though we are not convinced these were the only reasons for rejecting the commercial enterprise, we applaud his decision. We don’t, however, jump to our feet in clamorous ovation. There are too many other decisions that show the other side of Harvard’s heritage. Though it has eschewed participation in a DNA company, Harvard continues, for example, to maintain a real estate firm...
...applaud Clinton and his allies for working to get sugar out of our schools. But as a parent who has served sodas and other treats to my kids and their teammates following baseball, basketball and soccer games, I can tell you that the blame for childhood obesity resides not in our vending machines but in ourselves. David Housewright Roseville, Minnesota...
...trimmed from inner-city school budgets every year. I commend the Clinton Foundation for its efforts, but I suggest that its campaign be extended to highlight the importance of the health-essential programs that are being eliminated from U.S. school budgets. Mawusi Khadija Watson Buffalo, New York, U.S. I applaud clinton and his allies for working to get sugar out of our schools. But as a parent who has served sodas and other treats to my kids and their teammates following baseball, basketball and soccer games, I can tell you that the blame for childhood obesity resides...