Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NEWSPAPER contains an editorial cartoon that shows him evolving into Abraham Lincoln. It is rather heady stuff. Over a cup of coffee, Ed Muskie laughs. The comparison is familiar now. and, as Muskie knows, mildly ridiculous. With a shy grin, he comments: "You know, after my election-eve speech, someone told me that what I had said was a combination of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill." Again the hearty but not totally self-deprecating laugh. "After all," he says, "it was a partisan political speech. How could it be considered a great state paper...
...next day, Martha is ready to face them all down again with her big laugh and pretty dimples and her yellow hair piled high?"little ol' Martha," as she likes to call herself, undaunted, silly, reveling in attention, and making the staid, Republican capital a livelier place...
...must then kill him. His disappointment at continuing to live is severe. After he coughs the tape up in five bits, the other four characters each seize a piece, triumphantly placing themselves first in their own private lines. He alone sees that their victory is meaningless and, with a laugh, throws his piece down...
...kids when you can wrap the lesson in a joke? Example: the cast passes around a Styrofoam letter J. Each one repeats, "J," until the object reaches Cookie Monster. He booms: "D." The cast choruses: "D?" Monster: "Licious!" And he eats it. Guest teachers drop in all the time. Laugh-ln's Arte Johnson, in his traditional German helmet, discusses height: "Tall people bump their heads a lot and short people don't." Carol Burnett describes the various virtues of the nose, forgets one, and then remembersjust in time to sneeze. James Earl Jones recites the alphabetso slowly...
CHEAP vituperation and petty chauvinism are rarely more appropriate than on Harvard-Yale weekend. Traditionally, most of it comes from the other side. We could laugh off their peculiar taunts of "Yale Reject!", knowing the opposite to be almost exclusively the case. Down in New Haven, one could assume, they had nothing better to do than buy blue and white scarves (the Official Yale Scarf, incidentally, is manufactured in Harvard Square), carve their initials into the tables down at Mory's, import girls for football weekends. Harvard was more worldly than that, initiating academic, political and social trends which Yale...