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That courage sets Baker a little apart from the long and distinguished line of American newspaper humorists who preceded him, a line that is older than the nation itself. The first regular humor column in the New World appeared in Boston's New-England Courant in 1722 under the byline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Humor Man | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

At times it may seem to you that Harvard is trying to turn you into a type, so that when you get out of here (although there are plenty that engage in this practice while they are here), you can walk around all puffed up and properly conceited. It may...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: As Long As You Asked... | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

Pretty conceited, huh? The kind of thing Harvard fans would greet with chants of "BORING, BORING."

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Wanted: Hoop Fans | 12/7/1976 | See Source »

The serious thrusts at Leone and at Christian Democrats in general remain vague, unpointed. At the beginning of the story, "the execration index when it came to him (Leone) had risen to eighty-two per cent, as against thirteen per cent for those who hated him and five per cent...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Chronicles of Comedy and Corruption | 5/6/1976 | See Source »

The story is only superficially about pedagogy, however. It follows two Ohio high school teachers--George Groch, a sullen, conceited would-be poet, and his flighty and impressionable fiancee, Jessie Deagle--through six turbulent weeks here. They are both enrolled in an English class, Groch because he wants to come...

Author: By Kicholas Lemann, | Title: Love in the Summer School | 7/29/1975 | See Source »

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