Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, is a motorcycle, and the Angels have long been first among riders of the open road. Born in California in the late 1940s, the black-clad, swastikaed Angels and their roaring bikes became the terrors of Highway 101. Guzzling beer and shaking the countryside with obscene laughter, they broke up legitimate motorcycle rallies and often sacked small coastal towns. Perversely, pop music (Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots) and film (The Wild One) romanticized such outlaw riders as tragic, misunderstood loners, giving the Angels a place that they scarcely deserve in American folklore...
...secret that several officers in the U.S. command's secret information-gathering center in Saigon keep Japanese-made "laughing bags" on their desks. The little battery-operated noise boxes emit an 18-second burst of hysterical laughter at the push of a button. Officers have been known to push the button during working hours-quite possibly in response to the latest batch of statistics to arrive from the battlefields or hamlets of Indochina...
...regularly. As they blow, beat or belt their way into a complex piece like Thad's Tiptoe, which halfway on involves something very like a musical multiple-choice quiz between Drummer Mel and everybody else, the players follow each other's fun as avidly as the audience. Laughter, even whoops of joy fly out. Back at the rear wall, an extra-special solo flight by one trumpeter is guaranteed to bring an energetic handshake from another...
...profile of a man with a raging obsession, a feverishly disordered imagination. He may be a hypocrite, a miser, a misanthrope. In Molière's view, such a man is as mad as a man who claims to be Napoleon; the only cure is a cascade of laughter and the bracing tonic of common sense...
...humorous and the radical. In her New York accent. Abzug-who twice raised a weak fist and pulled it down in hasty embarrassment-revealed that she "only went to Hunter College" and that her grandmother would be very proud to see her at Harvard. Her audience responded warmly, with laughter and cheers. Her shouted calls to action-organizing Congressional constituencies, marching to Washington, registering 18 year-olds to vote-drew applause also. But the jokes scored best...