Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Excuse my laughter, but will somebody please inform the Alabama public libraries that all of their books have to be placed on the reserved shelf? Don't they know that all their white pages have black print on them...
Though winning every point, "Hitler's irritation increases. In the closing stages Göring and other Nazi leaders come into the room. Göring is the center of a conversation and there is some laughter. It is an atmosphere of relaxed tension. The danger of war has been averted. But Hitler sits moodily apart. He wriggles on the sofa, he crosses and uncrosses his legs, he folds his arms and glares around the room. At intervals,' with obvious effort, he joins in a conversation, only to relapse into silence. At last the agreement is ready...
...Hellenistic Greek of the New. The idea of God as an ineffable opaque Presence, as the principle causality, or as "the Ground of Being" and "Being-in-Itself" would surely have sent Abraham and Moses, Mary and the Magdalene, Saints Peter and Paul, into gales of reverent laughter: such a rarified and remote ontological abstraction or inarticulate mood of awe would seem an uncomprehending parody of the inexhaustibly rich and concrete Personality whose love and rage and will they each had known with such shattering intimacy. If it is one of the former concepts that is being generally worshipped, however...
...future one hopes that the ominous cries of Cambridge's colored prophetess will remind hurried passers-by of Nietzsche's allegory of the madman who was met with the laughter of the unbelieving populace when he rushed to the marketplace with a lantern in the early morning hours seeking...
...Raisin in the Sun. The New York Drama Critics Circle Prize Play about the hopes and fears, tears and laughter of a South Side Chicago Negro family. Uncommonly honest, touching, warm...