Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criticism and as criticism gives opportunity for the highest critical ability, the most logical thought to discover and emphasize the fallacy that provokes the laugh. In America today the opportunity for satire is great. The American mind is well adapted to satire. Many absurdities in our life need the laughter of the intelligent. Where there are many subjects for ridicule it is foolish to laugh at nothing...
...Threats, cajolery, and opera bouffe tactics having failed, she will prove her sincerity by tickling the Allies into good humor and assuring the world of her childlike simplicity. Taking French leave of a German prison is drollery itself. And the notion of a reward should bring a roar of laughter from those who know Germany's financial state. "Laugh and the world laughs with you" is still a live adage across the Rhine. It will be interesting to see whether the convict-clown will be finally discovered playfully torpedoing canal barges in the proposed trans-Alpine waterway, or indulging...
...meeting of the Modern Language Conference in the Common Room of Conant Hall at 8 o'clock this evening, Mr. W. M. Smith '96 will speak on "Bergson's Theory of Laughter in Relation to Comedy". Following this, Mr. Fletcher Smith will discuss "The Tradition of the Destiny of the Eternal City from Virgil to D'Annunaio...
...into farce--that is "The Nightcap" which began Its run at the Wilbur on Monday. There are many exciting moments--scenes which in a different atmosphere would have held the spectators breathless; to be sure, the audience was breathless anyhow, but in this case it was too spent with laughter to move. It could only sit and wait for the comedian, John Murphy, to crack another joke. Nor was it ever disappointed; the joke was always forth-coming and, what is more, it was always good. After two minutes of Mr. Murphy, no one in the house was able...
...strange, then, that "The Nighcap" so delighted those who saw it, for it provides plenty of entertainment. Under the cover of a "mysterious" butler, and later of the comedy figure, "Jerry Hammond", the background is swiftly filled in and the audience is swept, in a whirl of laughter, from complication to complication. For it is the unusual feature of the play that the action is continuous, one act taking up the story exactly where the proceeding one left off. Mystery there is aplenty, nor, as is so often the case, are there any "loose ends" and false clues...