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...tear ducts enthralled the nation and helped propel his ticket to victory over Adlai E. Stevenson, who even in defeat clung to the discredited Victorian ethic by quoting Abraham Lincoln's anecdote about a little boy who stubbed his toe and said that it hurt too much to laugh but he was too big to cry. Poor Stevenson, a prisoner of the past, deserved to be a loser. For the more up-to-date Nixon, the prize was the vice presidency and, 16 years later, the White House itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men, Women And Tears | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

Frightened? Well, welcome to the Academy. It can be a laugh a minute...

Author: By Bader A. El-jeaan, | Title: Another World | 9/25/1991 | See Source »

...proctors work so hard all year long. Then the students leave and there is a real letdown," says Mackay-Smith. "I think it's healthy and fun to look back on the year to laugh and cry about...

Author: By Michele F. Forman, | Title: The FIRST Year for the First-YEAR Dean | 9/25/1991 | See Source »

...staff. That's not for me. I am honest and passionate and sincere about my politics, but mostly I love being on the radio." He says it luuuuuuuv. And if some liberal listeners -- "and you know who you are" -- loooooooathe him, that is their constitutional privilege. Rush will laugh all the way to his own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting. The right wing, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man. A Legend. A What!? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...injury." May, who chairs the U.S. Olympic Sports Psychology Committee, makes an analogy with sex. "To respond optimally, you must be excited but relaxed. You need that feeling to excel in sports as well." St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Tewksbury agrees. "The more I try to have fun and laugh about situations, the better I perform," he says. So far this year, Tewksbury has won nine games and lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tactics Of Tantrums | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

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