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...Zouave gaiety. In our own time, we have expected our candidates for public office to have a war record. In his Inaugural Address, John Kennedy, skipper of PT109, called his a generation "tempered by war." Not every soldier, of course, went to battle with George Patton's mystic glee; he wrote his wife in 1944 that "peace is going to be a hell of a letdown...
Members of the American Indians at Harvard, the Gay Students Association and the Glee Club also reacted negatively yesterday to the change...
...Lampoon nine's cackles of glee quickly gave way to a dull gloom as a long string of goose eggs went up on the big scoreboard. The heroic Crimeds chortled as the game turned into a joke, far better than any that have appeared in the Lampoon in recent memory...
...attack on the Administration. Said he: "It simply told a few real stories about people falling through the safety net." The result was nonetheless a devastating but unbalanced indictment of Reagan's social policies. People Like Us, wrote Washington Post Television Critic Tom Shales, with inappropriate glee, "could mark a turning point in American public opinion toward the Reagan Administration and its cavalier treatment of the poor...
...politics. Distrust of career politicians is always latent, especially now: Lakian is playing on it for all he can. "I'm going on 40. [former Governor and current Democratic gubernatorial candidate] Michael Dukakis has been running for office since I was 19," he mentions frequently. He also takes great glee in reminding listeners that it has been well over two decades since Gov. Edward J. King, who is running for re-election, has earned a buck in the "private sector...