Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dialogue like this provokes continuous laughter, but its empty and flat quality leaves little impression. Even if Cullinan wanted to stress Wilde's intent to write a superficial, light play, his emphasis on plasticity goes overboard...
Corporation members Hugh Calkins '49 statement that Harvard's investment decisions are divorced from moral considerations: President Bok's conflicting remark that the Corporation had already "decided what is right" by not divesting and Treasurer George Putnam '49's laughter upon hearing of the last have all been publicized, thereby calling attention to the often callous attitude of the Corporation toward students...
...problem is that Harvard, as a corporate body, has no human emotions, as George Putnam's laughter so blatantly shows. They won't respond to actions that could be construed as succumbing to mere "human" emotions. The seven students (and, for that matter, anyone who wants to effectively protest for change) should approach Harvard in a more corporate way--something it can understand. For instance, the idea of placing the senior gift in a conditional trust is more effective; it involves more people and proves to Harvard that the issue of divestiture is directly tied to its income and could...
...Knowing laughter begins, as if one needs more than a superficial knowledge to recognize the all-too-obvious similarities between life and art: Liz and Dick were married, just like Elyot and Amanda, Liz and Dick were divorced, just like Elyot and Amanda, could Liz and Dick get back together again? Actually, they could, and did, and their second marriage ended badly, too. But if audience reaction serves as any barometer, then America hungers for a third chapter when Burton and Taylor first kiss in Act One, the audience whistles and cheers, as if it intends to will a romantic...
Donahue drew especially loud laughter from the audience when he declared himself a feminist but said of his upbringing. "We certainly didn't respect women from the waist up. He called the women's movement "almost revolutionary, but emphasized that sexism is far from being eliminated in the United States...