Word: humority
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...Adams House Masters followed by an interactive Q&A forum and concert, marking the debut of Harvard LIVE!—the five hipsters offered a steady stream of jokes and played a lively set of old hits and new material. Indeed, the band’s unusual humor and penchant for audience interaction was a big draw for the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) in bringing the comedic Canucks to Harvard, according to G. Tyler O’Brien ’07, director of the HCC. The exclusive guest list for the Apthorp House brunch included members of Veritas...
...Thursday morning not unlike any other, I was sitting in Sever Hall listening to a lecture on African-American humor. Suddenly, my classmates and I were jolted out of our intellectual reveries by the sudden utterance of the word “nigger.” This word came tripping not off of the tongue of our professor, but from a white classmate, in the midst of a comment on a joke that a slave (the “nigger” in question) told to his master. This came as such a shock to everyone not simply because...
...does to gallerists. "Exploration is at the heart of his way of working," says Aram Gallery curator Daniel Charny. "Trying out combinations of forms, technologies, finishes and textures, Hayón weaves the familiar with the new. It's this sense of history and craftsmanship, combined with his thoughtful humor, that makes his work so special." tel: (44-20) 7557 7557; thearam gallery.org; tel: (34-93) 532 1776 13; hayonstudio.com
...vanished world. He is, essentially, a modernist, miraculously preserved like a literary coelacanth from the age of Hemingway and Faulkner, writers of high style and high purpose without an iota of aw-shucks relatability. The future probably belongs to the Fraziers, the entertainers, who serve up their profundities with humor and sex and fisticuffs so they go down more easily. McCarthy would never stoop to entertain us, but there's a stripped-down intensity to his work that is just awesome. You sense that The Road, with its world empty of values and wisdom and human graciousness, isn't about...
...more political humor, visit time.com/cartoons