Word: laughter
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...such as Tom Stoppard and David Hare. They write "important" plays about political issues or nuclear physics or Russian intellectuals. Ayckbourn's realm is more familiar: the domestic and romantic trials of modern middle-class Brits. Yet no one has probed more acutely, or with a finer balance of laughter and pain, the sad human comedy behind these tidy surfaces - the inability of people to connect, to see the casual cruelty they inflict on others, to come to terms with their failed illusions, to be happy...
...surprised me.” Blazes, confidently straddling the line between male and female, opened the set with an original presentation before handing the stage over to student performances. The enraptured crowd, meanwhile, maintained its quiet during most of the night’s acts, often breaking into nervous laughter when one the audience was pulled into the fray. Queens “Miss Patience” (James P. Alexander ’10) and “Mariza” solicited the rowdiest laughter with their performance of R&B hit “The Boy is Mine...
...students in a packed Fong Auditorium on Tuesday. Despite the turnout of Harvard students, Leopold emphasized that the program was seeking students from diverse backgrounds—and other universities. “News flash: this program was not designed for Harvard College,” she said, drawing laughter from the audience. Leopold said in an interview that the program was conceived as a way to attract students who might not otherwise think of business school as an option. Some of the benefits of 2+2—such as access to an HBS career coach?...
...reflects. “But there is something very mature about their approach. I think many are looking for a way to go back home, to work through their own childhoods.”In class, Tatar is both erudite and whimsical, eliciting quiet attention and gleeful laughter. Yet, as students left her lectures last week, no one would own up to considering a career in children’s literature. “It seems so easy to write, theoretically, but I’m scared children wouldn’t actually like my work,” says...
...pornographic material—spoke candidly, frankly, and often humorously about the sensitive and potentially uncomfortable topic. “Can all the men who masturbated to pornography in the last 48 hours please come down to the front,” Jensen joked at one point amid laughter. “How about in the last ten minutes?” a male student quipped in response. Jensen warned of potentially graphic descriptions in his lecture, but when he launched into the description of the top five most commonly produced “sexual acts,” many...