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...show covers and destroys a good number of modern-age foibles, but you are apt to find the law student next to you laughing in the strangest places...
Obviously, the networks are still caught somewhat nervously between the stereotypes of Supernegro and a campy version of old Stepin Fetchit. Digby Wolfe, a former writer on the Laugh-In and Soul shows, warns that the "here-come-de-judge syndrome can be very dangerous, because it is apt to convince white audiences that Negroes are, after all, just kidding." He misses the point. No matter what the show or how limp the humor, the "Yassuh, boss" jokes are still, basically, satire...
...name, largely because they are vocally critical of each other and do not like to be lumped together with some of the abrasive men and controversial companies involved in modern mergers. They prefer to be known as leaders of "multi-industry" or "multimarket" concerns. Yet "conglomerate" seems an apt title. Derived from the Latin verb, conglomerare, meaning "to roll together," it is also the geological term for heterogeneous stone fragments fused into a mass. However much the word grates, it has become fused into the business language...
...vision which will do? I believe not. The truth is, there does not exist today a design which will resolve the underlying problems and hence command the allegiance of a large majority of Western Europeans." In this formless Continent of independent nation-states, Nixon's advice to Americans seems apt. "The shape of Europe's future is essentially the business of the Europeans," the President has said. "What we need is not more proclamations and declarations, but a greater attention to what our allies think...
...example, are no longer obsessed by their careers, and are much less likely to become obsessed with other young women. They are more indulgent; and besides, with them a woman is much less conscious of her own aging. Above all, the old and young partners are generally apt to consider their marriages more thoroughly beforehand than coevals might...