Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ovation 1." Khrushchev raised laughter or cheers on schedule. In fact, reported Pravda, his closing speech drew even bigger cheers than his stem-winding keynoter. Pravda's box score: applause 14 times, stormy applause 20, stormy and prolonged applause 15, animation in the hall 11, laughter 3, ovation 1, everyone stands...
...popped irrepressible M.P. Emrys Hughes to ask what amount Rees-Davies had charged the girl for his professional services? "Never mind about that," snapped the barrister. The gleeful Hughes then accused Lawyer Rees-Davies of also living on the girl's earnings, and the House rocked with laughter...
When O'Casey is introducing his immutable characters, which is for the first three-quarters of a very long evening, he displays his talent for sketching the Irish at their lovable best-warmhearted, simple but shrewd, full of energy, laughter, stupidity. When he finally comes around to the task of giving us a little action, his patrons are so conditioned to absurdity that anything else is probably impossible...
...cried: "Let's forget state complications. He is a sad and tired man, 20 years older than she. He lives in a dull and distant capital, on the edge of a backward and savage world. His court is oriental, his country uncivilized. Radiant Gabriella needs youth, sunshine and laughter. And then, how could a princess of Savoy, whose title goes back a thousand years, marry a man whose dynasty began in 1930?* Could she end up in the squalor of Teheran?" A Vatican source said: "In the eyes of the church, the Shah is an infidel...
...wonder is that a man as patently mad as Rolfe should have been sane enough to write Crabbe's story. He saw himself, not as others saw him, but, worse, as he saw others. Yet a strong echo of religious faith and a capacity for lacerating laughter relieve the baleful monomania of his vision...