Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indeed Abel, now Goldfus, seemed to laugh at the law; he stored some innocuous personal effects in a warehouse-office building that also housed the New York branch of the FBI. Posing as a struggling artist (there were several in the building), the spy hung the studio walls with his own well-executed paintings-a wide-hipped nude, Harlem street scenes, an oil portrait that markedly resembled Khrushchev-stocked up on mystery novels and books on Degas and Van Gogh, sipped his brandy neat at the nearby Music Box bar. He read the local papers and, occasionally, The New Yorker...
...Laugh if you will, call it going back to the womb--Vag was born in Cambridge--but the fact is that Vag depended on it. He had lived in the vicinity of Cambridge and Boston ever since he could remember and had never thought very seriously of leaving...
Many of his Harvard friends accused him of being too provincial and suggested that he should get out and see the world. But at this Vag would laugh. "After Cambridge and Boston, what is there left to see?" he always replied. Oh, he had gone down to New Haven once or twice, but that was about the limit of his long-distance travelling...
...dull details of a law case or parliamentary debate he prefers to delegate the slogging staff work of poltics; he can skim a 300-page legal brief to his satisfaction in an hour and a half. Canadians say that he is their "first Prime Minister with a hearty laugh...
...Campbell could match him: "Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone." Or, "When you were a little boy, someone should have said 'Hush' just once...