Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oldfashioned, high-ceilinged house at Küsnacht on Lake Zurich. The three-volume work on which he was dotting the last "i" seemed strange for a modern psychiatrist: Representation of the Problems of Opposites in Medieval Natural Philosophy. "Pretty abstruse, huh?" said Jung to a visitor. Then laughter rocked his heavy shoulders. "I must laugh! I have such a hell of a trouble to make people see what I mean...
...back of the room sat a number of professors and German guests. Halfway through the action came a Chaplinesque scene of soldiers goose-stepping down Unter Den Linden to 3 rally. "Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah!" sounded from the rear and lasted until the scene was over. The laughter was neither pleasant nor bitter. It was something eerie to be turned on land off at a signal...
...display which was truly a performance worthy of the most exaggerated tales of the Harvard lawyer's prowess. It is to be hoped that the tactics of faculty counsel will be recognized as what they were, and that the Committee's practitioners will profit from an initiation under laughter rather than under fire. Furthermore, the Committee need not think their case was a complete failure, for "an enjoyable time was had by all." Joe Mullins...
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 11:--David Owen opens innumerable Victorian closets in History 142b and finds an astonishing number of skeletons, to the accompaniment of laughter from an appreciative audience, in Sever 11. Disraeli, Gladstone, Churchill, and the rest pass in review in a fascinating study of the English and why they act the way they...
Orwell wrote in the reverse English of the ironist: when he is most grim he reads most gay, and such laughter is a Jason's shield against the Medusa he is facing. In the movie all sense of humor is discarded, and the audience is asked to look the Soviet horror square in the eye. The film, in short, is a shocker that demands not customers but a sort of resolutely determined suicide squad...