Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poujadisms (uttered genially, sentences punctuated with roars of laughter): "We want to put new blood into our Republican institutions. You wouldn't have to blow very hard right now to overturn them ... If France had been governed by an honest group of men, this movement would not exist today ... I would like to shoot everyone who has not informed the country about the financial situation . . . We should follow Portugal's example and practice a vigilant type of nationalism . . . Call me a Fascist if you like-after all, they had some good ideas...
...years ago. In connection with this the Indian press recalled quite justly that 250 years ago the present-day United States was a colony of Britain, and that if one follows his line of thought, then Dulles should consider himself to be a subject of Her Royal Majesty" (laughter, applause...
Moreover, this reinforces the fact that O'Casey's true genius is comic, that his tragedy-save perhaps in The Plough and the Stars-verges on sentimentality or melodrama. It is laughter that really soars in Red Roses, not feeling or poetry. The verbal gifts are there. But too often they miss magic by striving for it, or seem almost to be spoofing the Irish love of words. But where Synge, in The Playboy, could spoof that love and in the very process make prose beautiful, a more reflective O'Casey mingles honest rhythms with gaudy ones...
...Pusey would have to throw a party in Widener, followed by a sleigh-ride through the Yard. The IAB pool would stand awash with hot-buttered rum, and Memorial Hall would become a Yule log. Arthur Darby Nock would stroll along Mass. Ave. in a red suit roaring boistrous laughter, while townies pelted him with snowballs. John Finley would be especially jolly, God blessing every Dunster man, and section-men would scamper about putting a blue-book in every stocking, while Dean Leighton would smile serenely down upon the holiday scene...
...sweat-stained hat and rumpled suit, screeching defiance. Said he: "The championship of smearing has passed from Senator McCarthy to the Prime Minister. His election motto is ten smears a day to keep the doctor at bay." But wherever he went, the cry of "Molotov" brought shouts of laughter from his audience. Evatt attacked the Communist Party as "totalitarian in method and antidemocratic in character." But as fast as he shed his red feathers, the Communists stuck them back. A Communist-dominated union collected funds for his campaign; Communist mobs heckled Menzies. Said Menzies: "It takes a Communist...