Word: jested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cruelest Jest. The stage is set for the extramarital affair, frequently the office romance. The office romance thrives on contiguity, opportunity, and the fact that love feeds on shared experience. The man looks across the desk at this sweet young thing, and she stirs memories of playful erotic tenderness before he pulled on the heavy, encumbering armor of duty and responsibility. Whatever the wife is doing on her rounds, the husband and his secretary are doing something in common that draws them intensively closer, whether it is planning an ad layout or drafting a new skyscraper. Assuming the girl...
...compleat Senator, Javits never forgets his role. He has grown so used to the limelight that the public figure and the private man have fused and become virtually indistinguishable; his handsome wife Marion complains, only half in jest, that even at home he will not answer a question without clearing his throat and buttoning his coat. When approached by a streetwalker late one night in Manhattan, the Senator introduced himself, shook her hand and proceeded to solicit her vote. He loves his eminence and supports it with a sober single-mindedness matched by few, if any, of his colleagues...
...Robert Fox, one of his old West Baden students. Not the world's most patient man, McKenzie frequently expresses this love by openly chastizing ecclesiastical persons and institutions that do not live up to his ideal of what Christianity ought to be. Of Rome, he says, half in jest: "It stinks. There are too many clergy there...
...find any institution or idea that people dare uphold primarily in the name of tradition-not God, not country, and certainly not Yale, not the sanctity of motherhood or of private property, not even baseball, the automobile or psychoanalysis. As U.C.L.A. Sociologist Ralph Turner put it, only half in jest: "A tradition is something you did last year and would like to do again...
...dead? The three words represent a summons to reflect on the meaning of existence. No longer is the question the taunting jest of skeptics for whom unbelief is the test of wisdom and for whom Nietzsche is the prophet who gave the right answer a century ago. Even within Christianity, now confidently renewing itself in spirit as well as form, a small band of radical theologians has seriously argued that the churches must accept the fact of God's death, and get along without him. How does the issue differ from the age-old assertion that God does...