Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just such is the danger which menaces the American college, hidden in the warmth, the flame, the color and the laughter of its Class Day and Commencement celebrations. It is an offering by each individual to his own loyalty, to a totem, a kindred in this case with legions and generations of Harvard men. But such a sacrifice must not come unaccompanied by clear understanding and appreciation. The mass form assumed by the celebration tends constantly to render this appreciation more difficult and it is only the strict avoidance of set formulae and taboos which may keep it from becoming...
...that Stephen Potter is an O.K.-humorist, or that Pottering will become a major pastime in the U.S. Or, it may be necessary to develop some Counterpotters. Cogg-Willoughby, an experienced anti-humor player, might very well say: "Of course, what has gone out of our lives and our laughter is the fine simplicity of an Edward Lear." An American might do worse than to remark quietly but firmly: "Rather heavily on the British side, don't you think...
...Communist for the FBI (Warner) bucks a longtime box-office jinx. Except for 1939's deft Ninotchka, which turned laughter loose on Communism, none of Hollywood's anti-Communist movies (e.g., The Red Menace, The Iron Curtain, The Red Danube) has fared well with the customers. The Warner Brothers, who landed in the black with 1939's Confessions of a Nazi Spy, now try to turn the same trick against the Reds...
...remedy the mid-weeks hiatus, the sagacious free-loader spends much of his time on warm Spring afternoons just walking through House court-yards and the Yard. The sounds of a good party--tinkling glasses, sniggering girls, rearing male laughter--will float down to the moocher's ear and lead him to his filling-station. Entry is simple; a more request to use the telephone will suffice...
...ambled through the waiting crowd of juniors, listening to the nervous laughter and the distracted small talk, watching the Elis eat their nails and paw the grass...