Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign into memories of others, Old Halfback Ike Eisenhower posed beforehand with Generals Douglas MacArthur, Omar Bradley and Lucius Clay. The President enjoyed himself hugely, beamingly referred to MacArthur as "my chief," received a gold medal for "a lifetime of devotion to American intercollegiate football," rocked so with laughter at the khaki, G.I. jokes of Hoosier Comedian Herb Shriner that a newsman muttered: "I didn't think the Republicans were so alarmed over the Indiana vote." But most of all, Ike liked being in the presence of the massive greats of the game, many of whom were still piling...
...added another above-the-battle point. A recent G.O.P. leaders' statement issued after a White House meeting held that Democrats' policies tended toward socialism (TIME, Oct. 20). This, said Ike, was "not my statement-it was theirs. I think politicians do love to make things very positive [laughter...
Ireland. To the Irish Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart: "Ireland is a land of the smile and the tear. Also, alas, what a flood of tears, drowning out the joy and laughter of home and hearth, has poured through when the dyke of temperance has been shattered...
...frame after frame of temperate loveliness. Moreover, the family somehow transcends its tragedy by the very energy and fullness with which the tragedy is lived. The director has a sense of life far larger than the merely tragic. Moreover, he has humor. The picture bubbles over with gentle laughter at the absurd things people do and are, and the set pieces of comedy-a day at school, a band concert, a visit to the village theater-are just about as funny as organized humor...
...beer and a package of gum remaining; or a one-way subway token to Scollay Square (he can come back tomorrow); or English muffins and a cup of tea. Or a package of cigarettes. But it is night, the time of neon and lengthy shadows, streetlamps, hushed voices, nervous laughter, and sex. Night is Harold's garment of life...