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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life's-absurdities. Laughter is vital in helping to define what is human: its absence is generally taken as a sign of grave psychic stress. Yet laughter itself has never been satisfactorily defined. "The laughable is what we laugh at," writes New Zealand-born Philosopher D. H. Monro in his survey of prevailing theory. Argument of Laughter. "We laugh because we have seen something laughable. That seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Mystery of Laughter | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

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