Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pare at all. He describes his own work as "a labyrinth, a fun house, a release from the conventional, uncomfortable world." He is all against the high seriousness with which critics and museums surround works of art. "Rather than take my art seriously," he explains, "the spectator should laugh when he enters the room." The cream of the jest Le Pare generally keeps to himself: that his lighthearted approach and kinetic wizardry are based on more than 20 years of training and seven of theorizing...
...rush hour Bartley's is strictly for undergraduates and Widener types. Students arrive in groups of four and five, or at least in pairs. They laugh and joke a lot; and they don't mind waiting fifteen minutes for a hamburger. If you're in a hurry, try the counter. For amusement there are two highly comical drink machines, one containing grape, the other red punch. Always in motion, they slop and squirt the liquid up, down, all around. On especially good days, they become phallic; the punch machine plays the male to the grape machine's female...
...member of the staff came whooping in, bottle in hand, tripped on the sill and fell full-length in front of the Editor in Chief. The bureau chief explained to his startled boss that the young man was celebrating the birth of a son. Harry started to laugh and finally said: "Well, aren't you going to give us a drink?" It turned into a fine evening...
...attack on 2-S would turn students against the left and make workers laugh...
...recall his moving letter to the Boston Herald in reply to the vulgar remarks of a columnist after F. O. Mathiessen's death. I like to remember the time when armed with nothing but quiet assurance he took an axe from the hands of a mentally disturbed student. I laugh to recall how his presidency of the Saturday Club led Robert Frost into a slip of the tongue at President Kennedy's inauguration...