Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rare Joke. Solal is the most admired European jazzman since the late Django Reinhardt, but no American company records his music, and his following here has been nourished strictly by reports from Paris. Oscar Peterson went to France and gave up a tour of Provence to spend six smoky nights in the Club St. Germain listening to Solal. Duke Ellington heard him in Paris and immediately pronounced him a soul brother. Jazz-Hot found in his music "a fireworks of musical refinement," and Downbeat passed the word along...
...Algren seems to have survived a lot of them without letting his hosts or fellow guests suspect his feeling. The "throngs" that saw him off on his temporary emigration were as corrupt a crew of notable names as ever were dropped. His acquaintance included Bennett Surface, a characteristic Algren joke-name notable for being an even dimmer joke than any pulled by the original. And the pansy routine Algren sets going between a literary character named Norman Manlifellow and a "deeply tanned" writer named Giovanni is good for a yak, even though the material might be thought a bit crude...
They used to joke in Lexington, Mass., that new residents didn't need to join a country club-they already had the Hancock Congregational Church. The gibe was unjust, but for a time it almost seemed as if Sunday worship services were lost in a crowded weekly calendar of dances, card parties, and other social affairs. Then, in 1948, a young engineer named Albert Wilson persuaded his new minister at Hancock, the Rev. Roy Pearson, to support a group of couples who would gather periodically for the study of Scripture and the mutual exploration of Christ's message...
This self-consciousness keeps him from expressing gracefully any emotions he might actually feel and also from understanding anyone else's feelings. Vittoria (Monica Vitti) brings him to her mother's house and makes an innocent joke: she lies on her old bed--now much too short--and laughs gaily. Piero makes an ill-timed and unsuccessful pass at her and destroys her pleasure...
...whole thing started pretty much as a joke, and the first hour was often in danger of petering out for lack of a cause. A group of about 25 'Cliffies gathered in front of Moors Hall at 9 p.m. and marched toward the House area, yelling sporadically and giggling often. They looked like a band of Camp Fire Girls on a picnic as they walked through the Radcliffe Yard and along Brattle St. toward the Houses...