Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good audience is an entity, a rather mutton-headed mass which is readily swayed, will laugh--and cry--easily. A good performance transforms a thousand individuals into one monster: the audience," Guthrie said...
Remigia, now 47, has snapping brown eyes and a husky Italian laugh. She calls her husband "Carlo," his code name with the partisans. She herself has fought a long guerrilla campaign with the English language, but the conflict has been resolved in what can only be described as peaceful and rather charming coexistence. "If you with me a little while," she says, "you notice that I speak almost all the time in the present sentence. My accent, I think I never lose that, because I think I have no accent." She has made dozens of engaging campaign appearances...
...midafternoon, the dazed student begins to show fatigue. At that point, another instructor joins in, grills him on the day's words. In this "breakdown" period, the student may rebel, laugh, refuse to talk, curse his tormentor-but it is a time, insist the teachers, in which he can almost unconsciously absorb the toughest problem of a new language, such as complex tenses. The day ends at 6 p.m., after a 20-minute review. Then the student takes home two more hours' worth of reading and composition assignments...
...that the Negro in America is militant about improving his position. But not the Cockney. I'm militant about improving my position, but I never had the backing of any of the others. When I was acting in repertory and would go back home, they used to laugh at me-it was deliberate, sadistic laughter, and I've never forgotten...
...foundling foster brother got most of the milk. It was the same with his first crime-robbing the church poor box. A confederate got the pesos and Pito got the penance. "My life," he says, "is a sad one, like that of all cheats. But I have seen people laugh so often at my sorrow that I have ended up laughing at it myself...