Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back." There was plenty of joking and laughter, but also long hours of serious give & take with a rabbi. As with each retreat, the most moving moment was the evening ceremony of Havdalah (Separation), which ushers out the Sabbath, Music Director Helfman's voice rose in the sacred song of Elijah, who will herald the coming Messiah; in three concentric circles, their arms around each other's shoulders and waists, the men picked up the chant, swaying with the cadence. When the service ended and the lights came on one by one, many of these harddriving, hard-driven...
...house in New York's Catskill Mountains. Greying heads never forgot her. Wrote Critic Alexander Woollcott in 1940: "I can recall her every intonation, her every gesture, her every bit of business . . . Maude Adams in The Little Minister! Bless me! I still can hear the music of her laughter as she danced in the moonlight [and] see the toss of her head in the firelight in Nanny Webster's cottage . . . Maude Adams in The Little Minister . . . 'What a time of years! What a time of years...
...would-be rescuers bustled about him, trying unsuccessfully to choke down their laughter, Hagerty grew red and fidgety. Guffaws pealed down White House halls. Dwight Eisenhower roared so heartily that tears trickled down his cheeks...
Citation: "Skilled novelist of manners, an ironist who inspires laughter with a sting, he has made an imaginary character a byword on countless lips...
...year-old Ho Chi Minh." As Starobin described him, Ho Chi Minh is "a rather tall man . . . His back is now slightly hunched, greying hair recedes from a broad forehead, and piercing eyes look out over high cheekbones. He wears the oriental wisp of a beard, and his hearty laughter discloses strong, white teeth. He dresses in the simple jacket and slacks of the peasant." If Communist Correspondent Starobin could be believed, President Ho Chi Minh was at least still alive...