Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only a tinge of bitterness crept into the half-hour ceremony, and occasionally there was brief laughter, as when Folk noted that one graduate was on the Harvard Law Review and added, "Even Ed Cox couldn't qualify for that...
...stop for a few seconds in traffic. A friend of mine happened to walk out of the CRIMSON at that point, and as most Harvard students do, he surveyed the passengers from front to back, and three-quarters of the way back he suddenly doubled up with laughter at the sight' of me, staring out like all the others. This reaction brought an embarrassed silence to the bus as everyone tried to figure out who or what was so laughable. When another person came by and began to laugh, heads turned back to see who was causing these reactions...
...inquisitive woman up front asked why no one living in the Greater Boston area could be buried there. "Because they're not dead yet," Phil responded. Laughter. You had to be there...
...placed in one of three categories that mothers were using long before child psychology became popular: difficult, slow-to-warm-up or easy. Like Clem, all difficult infants (about one in ten) react intensely to everything: instead of soft crying, an enraged howl; instead of quiet chuckles, uncontrolled laughter, sometimes ending in a paroxysm of hiccups. Eating and sleeping schedules are irregular, and everything new requires long periods of difficult adjustment. Easy children-the most numerous category-are regular in habit, sunny in mood, quick to adapt. And the slow-to-warm-ups are just that: not very active...
...laughter...