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What do students get out of the volunteer experience? Well, there's laughter shared, lessons learned and lifelong friends made. I've come to know a homeless gentlemen through the soup kitchen program that I run who has taught me more over the past four years than any of my Harvard professors. One night he said to me, "You know when you live out on the streets, it's easy to want to give up on the world. But then when I see you kids at the kitchen every week, I can't give up on that world." That...
...blending catchy melodies with upbeat rhythms, he produced music that took the listeners' minds off of their worries. The fanciful gems of "The Syncopated Clock" or "The Bugler's Holiday" were by no means meditative or emotionally taxing; these light and seemingly simple pieces aimed to induce laughter and dancing rather than anguish and contemplation...
...Have you ever tried to take a multiple-choice exam without making a choice?" Jackson asked playfully, followed by a round of laughter...
Despite the ominous and sometimes horrific mood of Gorey's work, the reader who first comes upon a Gorey tome is likely to be startled, confused and hysterically overcome with laughter. The tales are genuinely hilarious, featuring an eclectic mix of Victorian mannerisms, macabre comedy and blunt inexplicability. The pictures, done in crosshatched ink, are typically accompanied by a simple, hand-written, declarative sentence or sometimes just a word...
...Peter is mostly to react to Jerry, but he does this well. It is easy to see in Mills' face how Peter passes from amused to shocked to visibly shaken as Jerry narrates the story of his life. Curled on the park bench, shaking from, it seems, both laughter and tears as a result of Jerry's stories, Peter's very straight, conventional outlook has been destroyed...