Word: laughter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Democratic success to a favorable political atmosphere for the left, not a permanent Republican decline. He began by saying that because of the recent Democratic victory, he imagined that he would receive “special sympathy, empathy, and condolence” on the notoriously liberal Harvard campus, drawing laughter from the audience. He said that for the Republican Party, the “most worrisome are young voters,” and that because of this demographic trend, his party is “in extremely bad shape.” Kristol compared this year’s situation...
...throwing spitballs” from the back of the room. This outsider status is a key element of their identity. For years, I have watched their shows because, in a country seemingly dominated by conservative ideologues, they offered an oasis where Right was still wrong, and laughter could lighten the burden of the very unfunny things happening to America...
...Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, made no secret of his allegiances when asked to offer his opinions on the platforms of the two major party candidates. “I can only answer that question with no pretense of objectivity,” Summers said at one point, drawing laughter from the nearly 30 people in attendance at the event. “The difference in economic approaches by either candidate is that one is sophisticated and the other is not.” Summers identified Obama’s proposed tax cuts for the middle class and his emphasis...
...losing the presidential election to President Bill Clinton and he knew it, so he decided to end his campaign in style, thaw his icy relationship with the press, and start having fun. "He'd rumble back to the back of the plane, and we'd hear the laughter up in the front," remembers Sheila Burke, Dole's former chief of staff. "There was a looseness about...
...matter how easy it seems to live and love on a day-to-day basis, we live in a place that sometimes values the distant future over the joys of the present. Harvard is built around the idea that human pyramids and laughter and conversation are all things that should come second to grades and careers. But in the face of inevitable death, human pyramids are a thing of paramount importance. In all their precariousness and closeness, in all the effort they take and the time they waste, they are really all that is wonderful in this world. We laugh...