Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wolfe was at Harvard to receive the Author of the Year award from the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The 'Poonsters inducted Wolfe as an honorary member and hosted him at a private dinner and party following the lecture...
...since. During a closed-door meeting of G.O.P. Senators to discuss the tobacco legislation that he was championing, McCain barked that New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, who had prepared a chart outlining the costs of McCain's proposal, was a "chickens___." Other colleagues are the subject of his barracks humor when they are not around. In June 1998 the Arizonan got up at a Washington G.O.P. fund raiser and told a profoundly demeaning joke about Chelsea Clinton. McCain, who has three daughters, later wrote a letter of apology to the President...
...Humor for me is a language. Humor is much more incisive and precise. It can show the barbarity of humanity better than the tragedy itself. It is better to answer negative events without violence, to answer death with life...
...more solemn moments of the movie, the villagers are fighting amongst themselves, questioning whether or not God exists. How does this serious episode fit in with the humor of the rest of the movie, and what are the larger implications of their questioning of their faith...
...with problems, but we want to try to understand those problems. We just have to try to find peace in our souls. That's the message that my father gave me, that life is such a big gift and we should live it 100%. We should always keep our humor--it is the manifestation of life. We need to keep the humor and our identity and memory, our culture and people, and we need to open our arms and spirit to other people. That train, for me, is all of humanity. We are starting from a specific segment of humanity...