Word: humors
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...look like their dogs, sometimes spokesmen begin to resemble their candidates. That's certainly true of Kevin Madden, Mitt Romney's national press secretary, though his neat, Romneyesque looks are quickly belied by a thick New York accent. Shifting seamlessly between sound bites and genial (if sometimes vulgar) humor, Madden, 35, has kept the campaign from getting too rattled by Romney's occasional malapropisms and gaffes. The effortlessness with which he laughs off Romney's missteps (when Romney told Fox News that his favorite novel was a sci-fi tome by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, Madden chided breathless reporters...
...lighter moments. Sorensen said with a smile that “young men thanked me for making Kennedy’s speech so dramatic because it helped them convince their girlfriends that it was the last night on earth.” Sorensen’s dry humor was also directed at the present. He said Kennedy was willing to show American missile surveillance images to French President Charles de Gaulle, and contrasted this with the current president’s treatment of similar evidence of a threat in the run-up to the Iraq war. In an interview after...
...daily traffic snarls caused by blocking off some of the city's main arteries so that the 2,000-plus delegates' black limousines can shuttle back and forth from their hotels to the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square is enough to test anyone's sense of humor. But when the meeting's fourth day dawned to blue skies and sunshine, one Beijinger, who didn't want his name used for obvious reasons, joked that the absence of the dirty gray cloud of polluted mist that typically hangs over the city must have been organized for the meeting...
...there are low-power strategies too, and one of the most effective ones is humor. It's awfully hard to resist the charms of someone who can make you laugh, and families abound with stories of last-borns who are the clowns of the brood, able to get their way simply by being funny or outrageous. Birth-order scholars often observe that some of history's great satirists-Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain-were among the youngest members of large families, a pattern that continues today. Faux bloviator Stephen Colbert-who yields to no one in his ability...
...former writers for “The Simpsons,” that was last Saturday’s agenda. The Simpsons “festival” was hosted by the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. According to Lampoon President Ross E. Arbes ’08 and Treasurer Hayes H. Davenport ’08 (who, curiously, asked that all quotations be attributed to both of them), “The Lampoon has had a long-standing tradition and relationship with the Simpsons. In fact...