Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...executive branch we've shot the bolt today. From now on we just have to work on Congress. If these guys get us all out of Vietnam in 90 days, we'll have the biggest crow dinner-and we'll all vote for Richard Nixon in 1972." Nervous laughter all around...
SANDRA LEE SCHEUER, 20, a junior from Youngstown, Ohio, was walking to a class in speech therapy (her major) when she was caught in the Guardsmen's fire. A bubbly girl and an honor student, Sandy seemed too gregarious and full of laughter to take much interest in politics or protest. Although she sympathized with the peace movement, she did not join her college friends when they went to work for Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign. "Sandy lived for what everyone else lived for-to find someone to love and someone who loved her," said her best...
...months to come, as those playgoers troop out of the Alvin Theater, punctured with laughter and a little pensive with an added wisdom of life, they may be looking for one word to describe this show. It's a breathless New York In word-one that New Yorkers haven't had much cause to use recently-fabulous...
...since such a feeling of lucid superiority is itself comic in its self-deception. His realism, then, does not say "All men are like this; therefore, take note and beware"; but rather, "All men are like this, mysterious and deluded; as you cannot understand, so you cannot judge by laughter; but remember that it is a comedy; if you start lamenting about despair, you become part of the comedy...
...joined the Jesuits, Phil the Josephites, an order that works mainly in ghetto areas. Both priests deeply distrust private property because of the greed that it provokes in humanity. Phil, the polemicist, is gregarious and outgoing-a tall, brawny, bear-hugging Burt Lancaster of a man, given to warm laughter amid healthy belts of rye. Dan, the poet, is slighter-a cross between Charles Aznavour and Steve McQueen. In conversation, his eyes often seem to rest on some invisible distant mountain. Yet he, too, exudes wide good humor underlying the melancholy. To the fledgling activist, he recommends "the merciful final...