Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meany also had an explanation for the lack of music. "We don't have an orchestra. We have what you might call some chamber music. I don't think you can play Ruffles and Flourishes on a violin." He conceded that some of the delegates had laughed during the President's speech. "But I still think we have a constitutional right to laugh...
...cross-country forays, he starts early, often before dawn, and caroms through political ceremonies until late at night. He opens his speeches with familiar, self-deprecatory laugh lines, some of them borrowed from Bobby and Jack. "I'm awfully glad to be here today," he says, "especially since I am just a young Senator out to make a name for himself." At a fund raiser in St. Paul, he began: "I've often dreamed of addressing a major convention in a major city. But, unfortunately, this is the wrong convention in the wrong city and a year early...
Moreover, it generates a zest and determination in the face of suffering, and she has known deep suffering. Her generous, open nature is also a vulnerable one; she has had to learn to steel it with stoicism. "People plan and God laughs," she says. But she laughs too?a billowing, enfolding laugh that is all the more warming because it is born not of frivolity but of grit...
...Tiger and the Lady." Then I was told that the story of the tiger and the lady had the impact or even substance of talking about X-ray analysis. I regret that the acute importance of cocktail chatter had to be shown to me in this way, but I laugh because the Harvard guest feels so threatened by my presence. LISA KLEIN A Metallurgy major...
Somehow, it's good to know that one can still laugh long and hard at a play about cuckoldry. The old traditions don't die, they don't even become modern. They just stay funny. It's impossible to tell you why or how, just go to the Wilbur and enjoy...