Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charleston, S.C.: "Isaiah says, 'All our works are nothing--our molten images are empty wind.' There is support for theoretical pessimism. But practically, operationally, you should not bring such an attitude to your tasks. You should go about your business with some measure of enterprise, of seriousness, of good humor and of interest. I do not mean to recommend, as the Schlitz Brewing Co. did some years back, that 'You only go around once, so grab all the gusto you can.' I'm not talking about grabbing gusto or swilling beer. I'm talking about living well, living a life...
...Government learns that two teenagers are making all that racket out there, has a gently realistic comic side. But it is also one of the most intelligent and gripping thrillers of recent years, a picture that transcends its WarGames genre (mainly because it avoids overt preaching and embraces humor) to set its own terms of endearment...
Along the way, Brickman makes good points about nuclear proliferation and Government security without interrupting the action. Nor does Brickman, a onetime collaborator of Woody Allen's, lose his sense of humor, which delivers in glancing blows rather than kidney punches. A story of this kind is inherently implausible, but Brickman has invested it with believability and an irresistible emotional pull...
Among acquaintances, Brian is known for having a funny, quirky sense of humor. "It always really surprises people when Brian's funny," says Touhey. One friend recalls his biting impersonations of fellow Council jocks and of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps...
First of all, there's Harvard Humor. Earlier this year, a friend of mine remarked that people here don't tell the conventional kinds of jokes. Being funny here is being more caustic and cynical than everyone else about everything. It's attacking as many sacred cows per minute as you can. Catholicism. Child abuse. Masturbation. The space shuttle astronauts. The welfare state. Women's rights. If you let any Harvard student let you know there's something you take seriously, get set to hear a nasty joke about...