Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading of Conductor Damrosch, the second on the frigid finger tips of Pianist Cortot. All praise went to two Debussy Nocturnes that came after intermission: Clouds moving slowly, solemnly, now white, now grey, now reflecting the pale splendor of a dying sun; Festivals with its wise laughter, frail and unearthly-and to the Meistersinger Overture that blew its virtues boldly into the darkest crannies of the hall and drew forth an ovation for the orchestra and its leader...
Professor Cabot divided his talk into four parts, treating in turn "Work," "Laughter," "Beauty," and "Gratitude." He showed that these four essentials in human life were all dependent upon a religious feeling and were inevitably pervaded by a love...
...Laughter that is exultant and rejoicing is possible only to the untroubled spirit the Christian spirit...
...literature, Anne Parrish's Victor Campion (The Perennial Bachelor) and Sherwood Anderson's Fred Grey (Dark Laughter) are proclaimed the best recent examples of "that cruel maldevelopment." Childhood's innocence is not scorned. The doctor appraises it warmly in the writings of A. A Milne, Henry James, James Barrie, Daisy Ashford, Nathalia Crane. His sterner brief is simply against those qualities in children which, smothering innocence, are most often carried beyond puberty-meanness, stupidity, intolerance...
...undergraduate body, it might not be a had idea if the evening was spent betwixt sleeping and intellectual activity. Let the freshmen attend the rally they have never blundered through one as yet. But let the rest of the college enjoy the evening they can save their laughter to better advantage for the next week end." The Dartmouth...