Word: humority
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...Advanced Placement credits to Harvard in the fall of 1972, where he set out on an Advanced Standing track in English. A Currier resident, Sunstein belonged to the Hasty Pudding and the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine.Kurt E. Andersen ’76, a novelist, political writer, and former ’Poon editor, remembers Sunstein as “a dry and funny writer,” with “a kind of rigor in his work not true of everybody then...
...Laughs.] It's long been a source of self-deprecating humor. I love to make fun of my helmet hair. And so I guess I bring that on myself...
...hopeful ideals and undying strength. As such, the death and defeat of the Holocaust is overcome onscreen by Tuvia’s message of possibility and faith. Composers Joshua Bell and James Newton Howard weave a brooding tone into each scene. Though a surprising amount of humor is sprinkled throughout the film, the weeping violins speak to the constant melancholy of the woods, winter, and persecution. Even moments of happiness and hope, such as the wedding scene between Asael and his wife Chaya (Mia Wasikowska), are interspersed with scenes of Zus’s bloody work as a soldier...
...their own right. “In the Loop” is a hysterical British comedy that follows English and American bureaucrats as they stumble clumsily into the Iraq War. Like a wry, comedic version of “The Ugly American,” its side-splitting humor is tinged throughout by the debacle of the current situation in the Middle East...
...closed and exclusive than they are at present. Their connections stemmed from shared college experiences, such as House affiliation and extracurriculars, rather than any official organization. One such focal point was the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The Lampoon name, Mostow said, was a Hollywood calling card. It granted access to a social group of Hollywood professionals—mainly comedy writers—including admittance to a weekly poker night.For some of the more seasoned alums, these strong personal networks may have superceded their affiliation...