Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time, futile--to explain why one must not use the "n-word." In Russian, the normal word for someone who is black is very similar, and the term "black person" is considered pejorative. To suggest that they use the term "Afro-American" elicits eye-rolling and cackles of laughter. But it stings my American ears when my Russian friend responds, "What's the difference? A nigger is a nigger." What this phrase means to him may be different from what it means to me, but ultimately it is just as dangerous. Marshall I. Lewy '99 is a Crimson editor...
...time, futile--to explain why one must not use the "n-word." In Russian, the normal word for someone who is black is very similar, and the term "black person" is considered pejorative. To suggest that they use the term "Afro-American" elicits eye-rolling and cackles of laughter. But it stings my American ears when my Russian friend responds, "What's the difference? A nigger is a nigger." What this phrase means to him may be different from what it means to me, but ultimately it is just as dangerous...
...Harry Met Sally and Harold and Maude thing. I was a bit surprised I found Her so soon--I figured it wouldn't be until Hanukkah at the earliest--but it was definitely Her, no doubt. Thus began and epic eight month journey of courtship--featuring flowers, midnight walks, laughter and tears--that, alas, would end with me heartbroken, my faith in the gods and goddesses of true love shattered, and my life headed undeterringly towards loneliness and desolation...
...broadband, the technical term for high-speed Internet access. It's complex stuff, so much so that even the big players sometimes get confused. (When asked a convoluted broadband question at his deposition, Case did a double take. "Am I in the wrong room?" he asked, to peals of laughter from Microsoft lawyers...
...funniest serious person who ever lived. She was learned and scrupulous and very brave. She spent the past three years dying of cancer, yet so alive was she with ideas about world events, she made one forget the inevitable. Her small, frail body would shake with rage or laughter at Clinton and Monica, at Congress, at her beloved city of Washington, which she would ridicule in private and defend against outside assaults, as one would a foolish child...