Word: humorizing
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...semester as his speaking engagements have occurred under the specter of his comments on women in science. Professor of Public Service David R. Gergen—onetime adviser to Presidents Reagan, Clinton, and now Summers—has been largely responsible for the profusion of modesty and self-effacing humor in Summers’ speeches of late, according to a former Mass. Hall staffer who asked not to be named. Gergen did not respond to a request for comment through his assistant...
Although, in his New York Times best seller, “Big Russ & Me,” he displays an affectionate humor in a collection of personal memoirs about his relationship with his father, Russert has already stated that the wit in his Class Day speech this year “won’t quite...
Still, the 55-year-old journalist-lawyer promises, “I have a sense that there should be some humor, but also something that will be memorable and helpful as people leave college and fly and head off in different directions...
...still feeling my way around Harvard, it gave me an easy excuse to meet new people. My freshman year, Roving landed me a spot in The Crimson parody by the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—did you know that I clean up vomit and then eat it and then vomit it out? My freshman roommates endearingly wallpapered my door with that issue...
...That Joe Friday approach is the fare of police logs and bad cops reporting. These raw radio transmissions give out the texture of law enforcement’s culture. You hear the way police, fire and medical responders think. Even better, you get a sense of the humor and frustration that goes with their jobs...