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Word: humors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made a two-year study of humor at funerals, and I've found that--contrary to the advice of every expert from Aristotle on down--that jokes have a role, even in eulogies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Brings Jokes to Class | 6/10/1987 | See Source »

CHICAGO--Did you hear the one about the professor who considers humor serious business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Brings Jokes to Class | 6/10/1987 | See Source »

...hear the 26 juniors, seniors and graduate students in Jones' "Humor in Communications" class, jokes are jokes--and the raunchier the better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Brings Jokes to Class | 6/10/1987 | See Source »

...difficult to keep the alumni happy. Edwards says he never gets any impatient requests for maintenance services. "I'm always amazed at the good nature of the alumni. I might expect that after 40 years they would come back as grouches, but they're in good humor...

Author: By Camille L. Landau, | Title: Around the Clock Operation: Setting Up for Commencement | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...secret life, the life his romanticizing fans did not want to hear about, illustrates a lecture on teamwork by taking a Ruthian clout at a traitorous underling's skull with a baseball bat. What he evokes, finally, is pure horror (and maybe some black humor) but -- and the film is rigorous on this point -- no sympathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In The American Grain THE UNTOUCHABLES | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

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