Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After what Band Director James Walker termed "a fiasco" at the Massachusetts game, reports circled about Cambridge that the Band would alter the format of its traditionally humorous half-time presentation. But this is no more than ugly rumor. According to Mr. Walker, the emphasis will still be on humor. The only pressure put upon the Band was in the form of demands that it improve the quality not the content of their performances...
...Walker noted that it takes intelligent social commentary and parody to satisfy a discriminating Harvard audience. He pointed out that the increasing use in recent years of the double entendre in Bank humor was no longer satisfying the audience. The use of a line from a song as the tag-line to a joke has often fallen flat because too few in the audience could identify the song...
Fifteen years ago, California politics was floating through an era of constructive good feeling. Governor Earl Warren had spread his bipartisan patrimony over every policial faction, and candidates ran for office with genteel good humor, eschewing debate for folksy celebrations of the sun, surf, and oranges...
When the Senator speaks formally, however, he leaves humor behind for a sober, gravel-voiced attack on the issues, pumping up the rhetoric with his right arm in the style of the late President. He runs primarily against Goldwater, calling upon Murphy to repudiate the Arizonan's positions on medicare, labor-management relations, and nuclear control. Named to the seat of the late Senator Claire Engle, Salinger will be listed as the incumbent on the November ballot. He hopes this will dissipate the image of carpetbagging, which has, since RFK plnged into New York politics, cur Salinger's lead...
...Beatle humor is visual and aural. We laugh when we see them gaily fleeing an army of girls, or when we hear them tossing insults at one another. But their spontaneous charm does not survive the transition from phonograph and movie screen to printed page. In His Own Write needs the sight and sound of John and his three friends. Without them the book book is dull. Sometimes even grotty