Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voices of the cast were loud and scornful, and there I was, buck naked, somewhere in the middle of the city and unwanted, remembering missed football tackles, lost fights, the contempt of strangers, the sound of laughter from behind shut doors. I held my valuables in my right hand, my literal identification. None of it was irreplaceable, but to cast it off would threaten my essence, the shadow of myself that I could see on the floor, my name...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare, eight of eleven high department offices were represented on the podium by acting officials. As they were introduced to the bureaucracy-wise audience of mainly H.E.W. workers, the ludicrousness of their transient titles touched off muffled titters that soon turned to roars of laughter. At present, offices such as the massive Social Security Administration ($60 billion a year), the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Health Services and Mental Health Administration are without permanent heads. The Department of Defense is almost as undermanned. It now lacks a second Deputy...
...field of light, and catches you in some kind of invisible net." George McGovern: When he talks, "the words just keep coming and coming as if he hopes that a little life and truth will sneak through." Senator Ted Kennedy: "Has red and tired eyes. He has short, nervous laughter, sounds like a horse. Ted is constantly searching and searching-all night long. He walks from group to group with a glass in his hand and looks terribly lonesome...
...Oration and Class Oration, to be given at Class Day exercises (the day before commencement), will be held by audition Monday, April 30th. (The Ivy Oration is a five to seven minute humorous, prepared or extemporaneous, speech dealing with anything and everything and is intended to evoke laughter through any means. The Class Oration is a five to seven minute serious speech centering around a topic of the speaker's choice...
...works of playwrights like William Inge and Tennessee Williams. Their characters are not so much oddballs as odd souls who suffer psychic and sexual wounds. This is the world of the alienated self, the mutilated heart, the existential transient, moving a playgoer more nearly to tears than to laughter...