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SOME of my friends call me a "walking anomaly." My roommate tells me that the posters in my room traumatize him. And some have suggested--only half in jest-that my outward religious observance is just--the perfect guise for secret devil worship...

Author: By Joseph Enis, | Title: For God, for Country, And for Metal... | 5/11/1990 | See Source »

Every debate at Harvard must pay homage to a "politically correct" (PC) ideology. Just the expression should strike fear in the heart of free thinkers. The mere idea--even if half in jest--that there is a correct, defined political agenda that determines a person's merit is abhorrent...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: 'Politically Correct' Thought Control | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...Death's Jest-Book, Beddoes' most well-known work, is a macabre tale of ghosts and murder, Ashbery said...

Author: By Christine A. Deleo, | Title: Ashbery Describes Death In Poetry of Beddoes | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

...Moynahan said in an anti-Bush administration statement he distributed. "If in the military, you may be in a position to spike the weapons systems. If you're in media or if you're an electronics whiz, you might break into a boring Bush speech with a jest, or loudly repeat BO-BO-BO, or insert a blinking image of a gunman shooting down a child. What an imaginative computer hacker might contrive boggles the mind...

Author: By Mary T. Teichert, | Title: Central America Pullout Urged | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

...this insensitivity that allowed one of my Harvard friends to tell me, only half in jest, that "One Jew at Harvard Business school is worth 1000 rednecks on a chain gang...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Liberals Need Hank Williams, Jr. | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

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