Word: elicit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unacceptable on all fronts. The objection that all this is in good fun is as vapid here as it was in the case of the Lampoon. Where racism is present, nothing is ever in "good fun." A theatrical production should not stoop to such a low level just to elicit a nervous laugh or two. Elizabeth T. Partridge...
...compared to the students of the 1940s and 1950s, the present generation of students seems less happy. Undergraduates then laughed much more readily; they seemed less anxious and suspicious of their elders. It first struck me in the mid-1960s how difficult it has become to elicit laughter from a classroom. This is no longer quite true today, but the spontaneous gaiety seems gone...