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Most humor has a target, and no one (even a Martian) completely enjoys being the butt of a joke. But unless Americans come to terms with the realities of human nature and of life within a chromatic culture, they will simply stifle a rich source of national humor without promoting a genuine and good natured appreciation of human differences...
...trains year round with four two-week European jaunts, warm-weather practice on plastic-matted jumps and such regimens as daily rides on unicycles for balance or diving for form with the University of Vermont swim team. Obscurity is an advantage, Hastings believes. "With the Norwegians, everybody's butt is on the line. We don't have to deal with that...
Speaking again before a Jewish group, King said that an anti-abortion letter released by the much beloved late Humberto Cardinal Medeiros "reflected anti-Semitism" because Rep. Barney Frank '61, who is Jewish, was considered the butt of the cardinal's criticism. But Frank told The Globe that King must have gotten the issue "mixed up" with something else. King was forced to "clarify" and then, finally, apologized for a remark that unjustly criticized one of the Roman Catholic community's most popular public figures...
There have, unfortunately, been some charges of sexism in the campaign. Perhaps modeling his northern neighbor Gov. "Big Jim" Thompson of Illinois, Bunning mounted a platform with rolled-up shirt sleeves to state that the governor has to "butt heads" to attract industry to Kentucky. Negotiations over a debate between the two major candidates also involved the size of the podium for the candidates (Bunning...