Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are many here among us who feel that life is about a joke...
...joke the first few times they arrested somebody," said Wayne M. Hansen, who is listed on the masthead as one of the Avatar's two editors. "But now it's really beginning to tell. If we don't get support, if people from Harvard and places like that don't come out and sell papers for us, we're going to go under...
...There are a lot of students in the United States and it would be hard to put them all in jail without disturbing their parents. Besides, once out of college, where is the Left in the United States? It's hard to find; Socialist candidates are something of a joke, and many radical graduates return to the campuses because they aren't appreciated in the outside world...
...Smart, Brooks was constantly asked what he intended to do next. He developed a stock answer: he was writing and directing a movie called Springtime for Hitler, a backhanded reference to Edward Everett Horton's summer-playhouse hardy perennial, Springtime for Henry. What started as a joke has become comic reality, although the title has been tactfully changed to The Producers. For at least half of its running time it is pure pell-Mel lunacy-which is to say, uproariously funny...
...these foreigners, it seems, matter very little. Those who want to can cultivate emigre mentalities; the rest just joke about the place. Although they are all doing jobs which are technically important, for all their nudging and advising life in Adzope goes on by default on Adzope own terms. It has to work out its own broad solutions...