Word: jestingly
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...Tonis voluntarily retired from active law enforcement to sit behind a desk in the complex of sparsely furnished offices and whitened brick hallways under Grays Hall. "I guess I enjoy being in an academic atmosphere", says Tonis only half in jest. He graduated from Dartmouth and B.U. Law School before joining the F.B.I...
...favor of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial: "Sure, it looks like granite darts. But it's about time we have something in Washington besides Greek temples and Roman edifices-something from the mid-20th century in which we live." Another something he has suggested, only half in jest, is the construction of floating swimming pools in the Potomac-since nobody seems anxious to clean up the polluted river...
...labyrinth, a fun house, a release from the conventional, uncomfortable world." He is all against the high seriousness with which critics and museums surround works of art. "Rather than take my art seriously," he explains, "the spectator should laugh when he enters the room." The cream of the jest Le Pare generally keeps to himself: that his lighthearted approach and kinetic wizardry are based on more than 20 years of training and seven of theorizing...
...turnover is so fast that a style is lucky to last more than a couple of years before it is pronounced dead by the critics. With such a declaration, many a collector decides that he had better unload, prices decline, and artists get despondent. More in anger than in jest, Painter Jimmy Ernst ticked off an "unhappy proliferation" of present and possibly future styles: "Op and pop, sop (soft-edge-optical), plop-plop (from catsup bottles), abrev (abstract revisionism), exab (express-abstraction), geopimp (geometric-post-impressionism), kipab (kinetic-pcst-abstraction), syncromesh (easy to shift), nero (new eroticism), and perhaps even...
Cocktail Training. The Point is still no paradise, but its new concern for student comfort has led some cadets to dub the place, in jest, "Hilton on the Hudson." In the new dorms, spring mattresses have replaced stuffed cotton bedding, and bureaus have pushed out steel lockers. Morning coffee is served between classes, and some instructors even invite cadets to their quarters for evening pizza and beer. Even plebes can date and dance on the post every fall weekend. Seniors can sip cocktails in the officers' club, a privilege that the Army rationalizes as "the social training...