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Word: jokers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agnew did not cut the deck between constitutional freedom or Machiavellian censorship; rather, he spread the cards on the table to reveal any irresponsible freedom or censorship that might "already exist." Perhaps such a critical hand might be just helpful enough to bluff the aim of some joker's camera or steady a film editor's slippery scissors that can hack or heal history in one snip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 12, 1969 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...getting his work done, he was forever playing at great white hunter or bravebull aficionado or none-too-accurate war correspondent. When Ernest the Bad did write, the crisp sentences came out flabby, self-parodying. Finally, he turned himself from writer into public figure: "Papa," the self-indulgent joker whom his embarrassed admirers couldn't drag offstage and back to his Ernest-the-Good writing desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ernest, Good and Bad | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...joker, whoever he is, remains at large...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Much Ado--Nothing | 3/20/1968 | See Source »

...SIMILAR affirmation marks "All Along the Watchtower." The Joker revolts against the meaninglessness...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Dylan Gets Religion | 2/7/1968 | See Source »

...visage that prompted one of his many female admirers to compare him to "an untamed animal-sensual and earthy." Then Don Quixote: a reflection of his penchant for tilting in public at sacred cultural institutions. Then Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks: the insouciant wink-and-nudge of a joker who likes to imitate other people over the telephone, and who once threw an entire hotel into chaos during a concert tour by sneaking around the corridors early in the morning and changing all the breakfast orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Gypsy Boy | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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