Word: humority
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Last year, after the unthinkable happened, a wave of spontaneous grass-roots patriotism spread across the land, and we all stood in line, the pinstripe suits and the grandmas and grandpas and the kids with the knapsacks, and accepted the inconvenience with darned good humor. It was a rare moment of common feeling, and we should hold on to that feeling--for the execs and traders, secretaries, flight attendants, the dishwashers and wait staff at Windows on the World who all went down together...
...reasonable for a man who had suffered so many years of discomfort. But Dallek's idea that Kennedy overcame pain and his faltering system through nonstop, heroic willpower and feverish pill popping is surely exaggerated. In his public appearances, Kennedy was nearly always working hard and displaying genuine good humor, a far cry from Dallek's image of a constantly pain-ridden biochemical...
John Jr. moderated discussions on wit and humor, arts and public service that came as part of the IOP’s annual tribute to his father, President John F. Kennedy ’40, for whom KSG was dedicated...
...after we’ve left our respective Ivy cocoons. In the “real world” (quotes intended), it’s probably not uncommon to find a more subdued, yet still pointed culture of good-natured ribbing and “har har” humor along these same lines...
When it comes to the humor of haughty arrogance that fits Harvard so well, it’s only funny when Yale is the subject. I mean, seriously, making fun of any other opponent—be it Lehigh or even a fellow Ivy like Cornell—in the same manner as we make fun of Yale would be akin to boxing with a one-armed man. There’s just something inherently unfair and pointless...