Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would not be entirely right to say the movie is built around Danny Kaye because it tries, at first, to be a parody, and a rather subtle one, of Hollywood's own breed of medieval extravaganza. The turning point seems to come after Roderick, gurgling, "Wenches, laughter, song! That's what we need around this old castle," sends his men out to scour the countryside. In an amusing take-off on Western posse scenes the King's men roll about the land picking up cart-loads of wenches. The cameras linger on the wenches, and good clean medieval escapades soon...
...talk by Edward Streeter '14, author of Father of the Bride. "Although the graduate's memories will differ in detail, they will be basically similar to mine, and he will sigh with regret that an era so good, so rich, so colorful, so filled with giants and genius and laughter, should have passed away forever--and then he will fumble in the lower drawer of his desk for his checkbook...
...already made his big decisions. On two successive days the President shot 18 holes of golf, and, although his game was not up to its pre-coronary level, his good humor remained unruffled. "You are going to hear a heck of a lot of laughter today," he told Glen Arven Country Club Pro Johnny Walter at the start of the first 18. "My doctor has given me orders that if I don't start laughing instead of cussing when I miss those shots, he's going to stop me from playing golf. So every time I miss...
...Columbine III at Moultrie's Spence Field. As Ike walked up the ramp to the airplane, a woman in the watching crowd shouted, "Now stand right there, and tell us you're going to run." For a moment Ike hesitated and newsmen gawked. Then he burst into laughter and ducked inside...
...Amid the laughter in the hearing room, the exchange did not seem to contribute much to the discussion of the farm problem. But it was a timely reminder that the problem has been around, recurrently, for a long time, and that the solution decided upon by the 84th Congress-whatever it may be-is not likely to be the last...