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...sometimes humor just occurs spontaneously,to the delight of students...

Author: By Carrie L. Zinaman, | Title: Scientists' Humor Defies Stereotypical Serious Image | 4/20/1994 | See Source »

...impersonator in the role of the pharoah. Elvis, i.e. the king, i.e. pharoah get it? As ifthatweren't bad enough, dozens of little girls dressed in rainbow colors lined the stage and carolled in high-pitched tones at every opportunity, causing many females in the audience to squeal with delight, and causing me to feel deeply ashamed of my gender, not to mention my species...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: The Windy Shitty | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...getting very morbidly involved in violence, especially violent sexual behavior," says criminologist Robert Ressler, who says he first coined the term serial killer 20 years ago when he worked in the FBI's behavioral-research branch. Americans now wallow in the horror and gore and take a guilty delight in killers' eluding capture. (Indeed, it is a chilling emulation of Gacy's reaction to the film Silence of the Lambs: "When I see a movie like that, I'm rooting for the killer," he told his Chicago lawyer Greg Adamski.) "Our society is actively breeding serial killers," says William Birnes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dances with Werewolves | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...epigram contained in Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche writes, "Objections, digressions, gay mistrust, the delight in mockery are signs of health: everything unconditional belongs in pathology." In her most recent appearance at Harvard, controversial scholar Camille Paglia stated unequivocally that "Offensiveness is an American right...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: The Art of Making People Think | 3/23/1994 | See Source »

...mighty" have fallen or are about to, but we as South Africans are going to have to take more from these turbulent times than simple delight at the fall. We need to turn that into a positive enjoyment of our wonderful country and each other, working towards constructing a new nation that will accommodate differences but not tolerate abuses. We need a new sense of self-respect and self-worth...

Author: By Nichola M. Beukes, | Title: Beware the Fallen Mighty | 3/18/1994 | See Source »

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