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...including some of his first public remarks on education since his resignation last year, came amidst protest and promised boycott from some Tufts faculty members, who objected to comments he made in 2005 about the intrinsic aptitude of women in math and science. Summers led with jokes that brought laughter from the audience of Tufts students and professors. He wryly said his view of academia before his Harvard presidency was one in which “everybody’s got the same objective and they’re all just moving forward together.” Pausing for chuckles...
...this darkness intermittently cut through by the explosion of fireworks from Astley’s circus, “burning bright in the night sky.”The explosions can have a terribly destructive effect but they can also bring peals of laughter. There are moments of joy, then, in “Burning Bright,” amidst seemingly interminable sorrow.“I don’t see why there has to be just the one or t’other,” Jem suggests, referring to the binary of heaven and hell, but also...
Humor has long been a sacred political tool. News can be spun or deliberately falsified. Books can be burned. Opposition parties can be marginalized. But the power of laughter can never be completely eradicated. Laughter, like murder, will out the tyrants, the hypocrites, the liars, and any others who abuse publicly-entrusted power. From Aristophanes’ mockery of the Athenian city-state to Bulgakov’s comic portrayal of Communist Russia, satire has, throughout history, allowed political dialogue to escape the bog of slippery words and violent duress. This happens because despite half-truths and full-spins, something...
...full advantage of the chance to say goodbye to Pops. Sure, none of us except the priest at Calvary Hospital ever explicitly wished him well wherever he is right now. But we said goodbye with some delicious six-foot long sandwiches and all-ins over old-fashioned long stories, laughter at the randomness of life, and much-longer than usual hugs. And for a guy who loved his friends and families more than anything, I think it was the best goodbye possible. Pops wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. I think it was a little more...
...hyperaggression, his inability to make any concessions, to acknowledge any mistakes, sends a message about masculinity that I find very troubling.” A clip of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger uttering the words “don’t be economic girlie-men” drew laughter. Ralph L. Bouquet ’09, the historian of the Black Men’s Forum, moderated a question-and-answer session with Hurt after the screening. “With a lot of the misconceptions and stereotypes that are in hip-hop, we want to give the campus...