Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even an opponent. Royster is a conservative, Morris a liberal; yet the politics of both are mellowed by an appreciation of human quality. Though he disagreed with many of Adlai Stevenson's views, Royster saluted his concession speech ("Too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh") in 1952: "I think that nothing better revealed in Mr. Stevenson a quality for leadership than the manner of his yielding...
Nowadays, women take such once dreaded confrontations in stride. "We all laugh when we see ourselves in duplicate or triplicate," says Jo Hughes. Besides, the situation could have been a whole lot worse. For the same $500 dress is owned by no fewer than 150 women, including such other notables as Ethel Kennedy, Cee-Zee Guest, Mrs. Douglas Dillon, Mrs. John R. Drexel III and Mrs. Arthur Gardner. Worn on those backs, proclaimed Society Columnist Suzy Knickerbocker, "it's the dress of the year...
...idle passages find ourselves touching the wound it left. My moment, and that of many like me, came with the death of Kennedy, and along with the others, I knew it. About the third day of that long, terrible time Mary McGrory said to me, "We'll never laugh again." And I answered, "Heavens, Mary, we'll laugh again. It's just that we'll never be young again." And I really knew that: knew it in recesses of the mind from which memories rarely return save in just such moments. I found myself at one point before a television...
...good but naive," he says. "In Vietnam, they try to help people but they don't know how." He has just read a book on Mongolia, which he liked very much, and offers to lend it out. He does not hate the Arabs--except for the Syrians--or laugh at their ludicrous performance in the air. How can you fix or fly a plane, he queries, when you never see a machine most of your life...
...Weary." Harvard owns No. 83 of the 212 copies printed in 1961 of this work, which bears the title-page inscription, "A perfectly plain brown paper wrapper for purposes of public concealment may easily be made at home." It is an obvious spoof, but someone in Classification didn't laugh...