Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your memory to figure out what the title Lost Cookies means. The new play, written by Tommy Crammer '78 and Adam Bellow is a funny look at a Harvard freshman year. Everybody made some mistake then; Kramer's play will probably remind us of some we'd rather forget. Laughter may be the only cure. Performances are tonight through Saturday at 8 p.m. with a midnight show Saturday in the Eliot dining hall. Tickets are free...
...bizarre business takeovers in this year of furious financial raiding, one has raised howls of hearty laughter among Wall Street insiders and others. It is the takeover by Kennecott Copper Corp. (1976 sales: $956 million), the nation's largest copper company, of the Carborundum Co., a Niagara Falls-based diversified firm (sales: $614 million). Reason for the mirth: Kennecott paid the astonishing price of more than $560 million, or $66 a share-twice Carborundum's book value. Many of Kennecott's nearly 72,000 stockholders were sclerotic over the deal. Some had hoped that the company would...
...final page. But within its elemental comic-strip layout a series of hilarious sight gags are set up and sent home. Author-Illustrator Ed Emberley has never been a man to pull his punch lines, and his jokes are often a bit too raucous; but then so is the laughter that ensues from their close inspection...
Ellis Rabb can tango with words and he is a sly devil at milking an audience dry of laughter. Peter Evans' John rolls his lines like dice in a crap game he dare not lose. For Mamet, this play is a five-finger exercise, but so nimble that he often seems to be using ten. - T.E.K...
...strong needs to love or fight are more prone to writer's block." Most psychiatrists believe that, just as there is no single explanation for murder or theft, there is no one cause for writer's block. But Grotjahn, who discusses the problem in his book Beyond Laughter, believes hostility is the fundamental reason. Writing is an aggressive demand for attention. It can be blocked when a writer projects his anger onto reviewers and readers. "It's the fear of being attacked," says Manhattan Psychoanalyst Walter Stewart, "the fear that you will be treated as contemptuously...