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...comedy-drama concerns the eight Donavan sisters, all Rhode Island Catholics of a certain age, who spend every other Friday night from 1931 to 1944 playing cards, swapping pieties and gibes, and often giggling like ticklish Munchkins. Yes, there are private agonies that not even the trill of Irish laughter can successfully smother, but the lingering mood is fond and bantering, as if the playwright had stumbled into some improbable locker room of maiden aunts. It takes no imagination at all to see this play on Broadway next season with an all-star cast. Before they consider that, producers...
...Liebert cautions that Lang's intense, diatribic style may invite more amusement than serious acceptance. "Lang got his share of jokes and laughter and wringing of hands within the federation, that's for sure," he says. "Suppose there were 150 Langs doing this sort of thing...How many of them would you trust, for how long...
Gross later met with Reagan for 30 minutes. She described the President as "vastly uniformed... It was scary." He told me that Americans had the privilege of freedom of speech, but also the responsibility to be right," she added, drawing laughter from the crowd...
Most, I believe, reject the snappy comeback, defensiveness, haughtiness, and nasty laughter, from the outset of our teaching careers. I imagine that many people go into the profession, which they know it or not, because someone filled the classroom for them with affectionate attention. When the look I give a student conveys a particularly challenging attitude of good expectation, some of that attitude comes straight from my fourth-grade teacher, Florence Sayer. The student I'm looking at sees a look that was directed at me in 1951, and that had been in use in dingy green classrooms as early...
...English developmental theorist, D.W. Winnicott, the parent kneeling on the floor a few feet from the toddler is creating a "space" in which learning takes place, in which there is little danger, much intrinsic reward, and the right amount (not too much) of excitement and applause and laughter. There are many kinds of laughter connected with learning, and the prophetic, promissory laugh drives out the mean, defeatist laugh...