Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ONCE UPON A TIME, not too many years ago, the Harvard Lampoon had a bunch of writers who were really funny. Unlike the vast majority of their predecessors and successors in the dim reaches of that silly building on Mt. Auburn St., they were given to more than the occasional inspired burst of humor breaking through a floundering mass of sophomoric attempts at cleverness. And these folks had the good luck to be really funny during the late '60s, a period that called for an unusually strong and radically different sense of humor. Some of the writers probably had trust...
...hold on a second, Boston is not as theatrically limp as it might seem, for this week brings us a whole bunch of actual, guaranteed-not-to-tarnish Broadway plays. Except for one thing. They're all about ten years old, or, at any rate, we saw them in New York before we even knew what SAT's were...
...been punished enough by her defeat at the polls last year, Singh declared that the government's failure to arrest Mrs. Gandhi for abuse of power during her 21-month emergency rule had disillusioned all of India. "The people think that we in the government are a bunch of impotents who cannot govern the country," he charged from his rest-house near the ancient Hindu sun temple of Suraj Kund...
Central bankers are by tradition an aloof bunch, awed into solemnity by their own eminence as arbiters of a nation's money supply and guardians of the value of its currency. They immerse themselves in financial esoterica, dress somberly in three-piece blue suits, and give the impression that they speak only to one another and to God. When they do appear in public, they issue Delphian warnings, usually of impending inflationary doom. An optimistic central banker has been defined as "one who thinks the situation is deteriorating less rapidly than before...
...board of governors sits back like a bunch of foolish yes-men and watches two tycoons manipulate their organiztion. Well, that's their problem because it undermines their credibility as a spearhead for a professional sports association...