Word: humor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a colonel demands what this means, Joker replies in words that are deadly serious, yet couched in Joker's immortal humor. "I think I'm trying to say something about the duality of man--you know that Jungian thing," he jibes at the superior officer who stares blankly...
...which explains the attraction to an educated crowd. Pressed for specifics, his students tend to develop a moist eye, a bemused grin, an air of higher enlightenment and a condescending kiss-off: "Really too complicated to go into in depth." Certain words get great play: compassion, creativity, generosity, grace, humor, kindness, love, sanity, scholarship. It is, say religious scholars, more of a method than a religion. The relationship between teacher and student is similar to that between psychiatrist and patient, goes one definition. There has to be full trust, otherwise nothing is accomplished. "It's a particular type of religious...
Greenspan often flashes an understated sense of humor and irony. At a TIME Board of Economists meeting in 1984, for example, he talked about the need for political leaders to hammer out a federal budget compromise behind closed doors. Said he: "The old smoke-filled room probably will have to be resurrected, even if it has a NO SMOKING sign...
...students also had a sympathetic audience--each other Jones said that as the 10-week class progressed, the students became less and less inhibited in their humor, particularly the women, who were 20 of the 26 students...
...routine counts for about 25 percent of their grade," Jones said, "but they also had to write papers on humor as a management tool, humor in leadership, understanding cross-cultural humor and the use of humor in managing conflict...