Word: merriment
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...While many reactions have been hostile, some Pakistanis have laughed off the exchange as nothing more than a source of inconsequential merriment. But the country's religious conservatives are unlikely to be so forgiving. A previous inappropriate encounter between a leading Pakistani male politician and an American female politician was seized on by political opponents in Parliament: Condoleezza Rice biographer Marcus Mabry described in pitiless detail an abortive charm offensive by former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on the U.S. Secretary of State, after Aziz had allegedly told diplomats that "he could conquer any woman in two minutes...
...inescapable cultural objects of our - comparatively - recent times. Many otherwise sober critics and literary scholars regard the novel as Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece. I've always disagreed. I think his Sword of Honor trilogy is his great work - infinitely sadder and wiser - though for fall-about merriment it's hard to beat Scoop...
...beauty parlor and rises from sweeping up the floor to creating sweeping hair-dos - and incidentally to providing sexual services for its aging clientele. It's a variation on a gag that happily served Mel Brooks in The Producers, and as in that enterprise, the result is more innocent merriment than discomfort for the audience. But still...issues keep arising...
...Sunday, Carroll R. Bogert ’83 shot a missile into the middle of the nostalgic merriment of upcoming Harvard reunions...
...scientists were quite adamant about wanting to have a rooftop bar,” Gordon said, speaking above the merriment. “So in all of our environmental plans, you’ll see a ‘function room,’ but if you know the code that’s actually...