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...Farm (TIME, Feb. 4, 1946,) Orwell parodied the Communist system in terms of barnyard satire; but in 1984 (which, along with John Gunther's Behind the Curtain -see below-is the Book-of-the-Month Club's selection for July), there is not a smile or a jest that does not add bitterness to Orwell's utterly depressing vision of what the world may be in 35 years' time...
...Jest. Near Bursa, Turkey, two passengers jumped from a speeding bus when a prankster, riding along in a coffin, raised...
What does college do for you? There are all kinds of partial answers-spoken sometimes in jest, sometimes in anger and once in a while in pride. But there have been no actuarial facts to give a statistician's picture of what the nation's 4,966,000 college graduates are like...
Administrative officials referred to their ruling of last year which prevented the installation of washing machines in the Houses as a cooperative measure. "Jest goes for show yer," saf da prominent maintenance expert, putting down his bucket of elbow-grease, "these new-faugled devices jest don't compare to old elbow-grease...
...tiled bathrooms and took a barth every mornin'. Not that I'm against it ... I do like to 'ave a good 'ot soak once in a while, after cleanin' out the 'en 'ouse. . . . But when you get there, they're jest ordinary folks like us. ... When you see 'em, you like 'em. Wot's more, they like...