Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcast time the audience ("those hyenas") were weak with laughter. They were with him. They had been with him, all over the U.S., for 14 years. But never before this season has he had a greater volume of enthusiastic listeners. Twice this season, for the first time in Fred Allen's radio career, his show has ranked first in the Hooper telephone poll of listeners...
...gloomy drama which is currently occupying the world's stage, Americans (whether they liked it or not) were playing the lead. How did the new stars appear to the worldwide audience? Part of the crucial answer could actually be found in the theater. American lives, loves, liberties and laughter were being exhibited everywhere on Europe's battered boards, from London's Globe to Rome's Quirino. European plays about Americans, and Europeans' reaction to the flood of imported U.S. plays, reflected-in the bizarre but revealing light of theatric truth-what other nations think Americans...
There was no laughter in either Prime Minister Clement Attlee or Winston Churchill as they resumed the India debate next day. Clem Attlee had to admit that administration in India had broken down to the point where Britain was no longer effective. Gloomily he warned that India was "a volcano of hidden fires," and "even as we are speaking tonight there are serious communal disturbances" (see below). But he argued against any "plea for delay . . . and inaction...
...story is accompanied by much searching of the upper ether where those heroic German ancestors, Goethe and Mozart, presumably dwell, and the Steppenwolf's dismal adventures evoke their cold immortal laughter...
...Reckless Laughter. The men responsible for these two new books on Joyce do not share Connolly's disappointment. In the introduction to his portable Joyce (containing selections from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as well as Joyce's short stories, his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, his lyrics and his play, Exiles, all complete), Harvard's Professor Harry Levin wrote: "As we study them closely, we are less intimidated by their idiosyncrasies, and more impressed not only by the qualities they share with the great books of other ages, but by their vital concern...