Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says, "Man still goes on believing that tomorrow will be better. This faith is the greatest miracle of all--this is today's miracle, and tomorrow's, and tomorrow's." Patrick's writing is able to move this strongly, and yet it can at other times bring on riotous laughter. It is principally because of his considerable skill that the play goes deeper than the conventional story line...
...publishing a 60,000-word series of articles based on three years of research by its staff. Its contention: Van der Lubbe did it alone after all. Der Spiegel pictures him as a warped idealist of more than ordinary intelligence whose strange courtroom behavior-alternately listless or roaring with laughter-resulted from "many months in solitary confinement, chained to the wall with a bright electric light burning day and night...
...more great ones. Sholom Aleichem and Isaac Peretz, another master storyteller, have provided Arnold Perl with the material which Perl has transformed into excellent theatre. The Boston six day engagement is an all too brief revival of the 1953 New York hit. It is a world of bittersweet laughter, presented in the form of three short sketches...
...into the air--and often takes this time off just before the punch line of a story, a pause that makes the tag all the funnier. And, after the first punch line, Holbrook often takes a second puff or so, followed by another line, inciting a fresh burst of laughter...
...Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser, 51, is the title of the TV program sponsored by their $1.8 billion industrial empire: Maverick. Before he moved upstairs to let his son take over, bulldozing Henry J. built a worldwide network of diversified companies with an independence and daring that alternately drew gasps, laughter, and profanity from U.S. industry. Last week Son Edgar once more proved that the Kaisers are mavericks: he settled with the striking United Steelworkers on behalf of his Kaiser Steel Corp., thus breaking the industry's solid ranks...