Word: laughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words of testimony, the Niirnberg mill ground out the story of six million Jews murdered, millions of laborers held in near-slavery. So huge were the figures that the world could scarcely grasp them. Though Hermann Göring postured in the dock and Rudolf Hess bellowed his insane laughter, interest in the courtroom scene flagged. But last week, crowds once more flocked to the big red-roofed Palace of Justice. The 13th and last of the Nurnberg trials was drawing...
...first time, Bevan saw the world beyond the Welsh hills. He loved it. He plunged into a crowd of young people who had read, who could talk. They were fascinated by his exuberance, his brash charm, his wit. Bloomsbury apartments, Chelsea studios and Mayfair drawing rooms reverberated with the laughter which came from him in torrents as he threw back his massive head. But he remained true to Tredegar; he nourished his hatreds...
...performance in general, however, is less an invitation to lust than to laughter. Miss West's ideas about sex sometimes verge on the impracticable, while her manifestations of it are often a little too gaudy to be glamorous. But the lordly slink and the languid grunt are, for all that, the merely too emphatic mannerisms of an assured and perfected theatrical manner. When, for instance, a new suitor (Steve Cochran) sighs: "My love for you will last forever," it is with genuine mastery of timing and pitch that Miss West inquires: "How about your health?" In any theater world...
...Letter to Three Wives. A trio of crises in the young married set, told with skill and knowing laughter, with Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern (TIME...
...think, to create and to destroy. As a "back door" into this problem, he begins by examining the forces that make men laugh. He shows, with the help of a number of geometric diagrams and a lot of peeking into the plumbing of "the sympathico-adrenal system," that laughter is a form of self-assertion. This section of the book also notes some pedagogical experiments in what Koestler gravely calls "the functioning of the original squirm reflex"-a phenomenon further documented in his book by laboratory experiments in what happens when scientists tickle babies...