Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost nothing but clear away! Everything which even remotely smacked of mysticism and morality, of pietism and romanticism, or even of idealism, was suspected and sharply interdicted or bracketed with reservations which sounded actually prohibitive! What should really have been only a sad and friendly smile was a derisive laugh...
...TIME never had such a laugh...
...Leaving." After a day's restraint (he merely called NBC's action "idiotic") Paar appeared for the taping session of his next show. For the first 15 minutes, there was business as usual - bright, light, laugh ing. But soon after the show was due to "go network" and spread from New York cross country, Paar's smile petered out. "All right," he asked. "Are you ready...
...minute "Meeting of the Minds" inserted in his hour-long TV variety show, featuring Allen and actors playing Aristotle, Dostoevsky, Montaigne, Hegel, Freud and Clarence Darrow, the lot of them hashing over the wisdom of the ages. But NBC, unable to see in such a cerebral panel the laugh riot customarily expected of Comic Allen, summarily vetoed Thinker Allen and his sham philosophers. It was, allowed the network, perhaps a fine idea for some other spot, time and moderator. Whimpered Steve Allen: "I feel like Edison might have felt if they turned down the electric light while they were sitting...
...loading ledgers and unloading responsibility, finding loopholes in Parkinson's Law and keeping ahead by one whisker in the career race. Marx wrote: "The Communists seek to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class," but any bright boy of the commissar caste should have a good laugh over this. If he fails to make a grade, he disappears without appeal into the grey unprivileged proletarian mass below. Inch by inch, his nose ever clean, he works through the Comsomols (Communist youth groups) and elementary science instruction, through the barracks and blackboards of his Marxist monastery to emerge...