Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ours used to tell-Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh...
...situation comedies. Car, Smothers and Jeannie are only three of the 18 new shows that will be tickling the ribs of laugh machines next year. The most promising of the situations seems to be occupied by Hogan's Heroes (CBS), a sort of World War II P.O.W. version of Bilko's bunch who use their prison camp as an Allied headquarters for spying and plotting escape routes for downed pilots. As usual, though, it looks like old tricks for most of the other new dogs...
...book. "Get divorced while you're young," says one character to another. This is not funny. It is in the same key as that timeless anecdote of the Indian victim, trussed and scalped, who is asked bv his saviors if he is in any pain. "Only when I laugh," he says...
This story is making the rounds in Western Europe-and a lot of businessmen choke a little as they laugh. Though things have not really reached that stage, the joke symbolizes the changing mood and manner of labor in many of the free world's industrial nations. In prospering northern Europe, in Australia and even in Japan, most of whose economies for centuries have been based on an abundance of cheap and diligent workers, labor shortages are now the rule. Being so sought after, the workers have grown as finicky as French chefs about everything from drafts...
...haven't gotten any grades back yet, but you will soon. In a couple of days you'll know just what your section man thought of you. You'll laugh; you'll cry. But no matter what he thought of your work, you still have recourse. The CRIMSON is collecting Confy Guide polls for the umpteenth consecutive year. Look around for them, in the libraries and dining halls. Soon to be distributed. Return to the CRIMSON building or to the box in Lamont...