Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professor of Byzantine History Iher Sevoako about what sorts of jobs Harvard could offer non-registrants, Rosovsky noted a variety and then added, "When I say there are lots of jobs, most of them are not drinking tea in the Ukranian Institute--however arduous it may be," eliciting laughter from the faculty...
...hawkish chairman of the Armed Services Committee, highlighted the problem when he read a letter he had written inviting each Senator to submit a list "of any defense-related project in his or her state where a reduction of expenditures could be made." The request was met with nervous laughter. Many members criticized the only substantive cut the Administration has proposed, freezing military pay for a year, an objection that was tacitly endorsed by General John Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told the lawmakers he would prefer cuts in weapons procurement instead...
...Elizabethan playwrights defined it, was an exaggerated human trait, a leaning of disposition so severe as to create a caricature. Thus a character in a comedy of humors would be called Squire Downright, and only downright would he act. In 1900, Henri Bergson proposed an elaborate theory of laughter based on just such a condition. Bergson held that we expect all things human, or connected to the human, to be pliant and fluid. Therefore any demonstration of human inflexibility is potentially funny...
...Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation...
...wicked words do not explain what is going on, the laughter from the audience does. As it celebrated its first anniversary last week, Forbidden Broadway was standing-room only, one of the hottest tickets in town. Many people come for updates; 60% of the material is different from when the show opened. This parody of the real Broadway is imitating the hits in more ways than one: a Los Angeles company will open at the Comedy Store in April; there may be other productions in Boston and San Francisco and a cable show too. In a time when big-budget...