Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idealistic people going around are misleading and confusing and weakening our position. We have never said they are unpatriotic, although they say some pretty ugly things about us. People who live in glass houses shouldn't be too anxious to throw stones." Yet he was able to joke about his critics. "If I have done a good job of anything since I have been President," he smiled, "it is to insure that there are plenty of dissenters...
...jokes in Falstaff are foolproof because Verdi built the comic timing into the music. If the singers stick to the notes, they can't help but deliver the punchline faultlessly every time. Add to this the fact that any joke, no matter how hackneyed, quadruples in laugh-value the moment it is set to music, and you see why the opera Falstaff is as much funner than the play The Merry Wives of Windsor as Gilbert and Sullivan is funnier than Gilbert...
...that did not prepare him for college or a job. As George cut a piece of leather out of the seat to make a slingshot, he said he hated school and everything run by older people. Paul, embarrassed by the conversation, admitted softly that he went to "an educational joke, Boston Trade School...
After a few bouts with this infinitely fractured surrealist French, most readers will concede that Author Van Rooten, who is a polyglot Manhattan actor, has succeeded in three minor and un likely enterprises: producing a new parlor game, pulling the leg of all pedants everywhere, making a joke in French, of which, for once, only English speakers can see the point...
...cruel ruse, the CIA's team of writers resorted even to such time-worn tricks as the formless plot, the dialect joke, and the late-President slur. But again the audience refused to see its vision dashed, and the intelligence men's most basic weapon--mimic ability--carried the show. On top of which, the CIA as usual was technically flawless. The set it put together, even forgetting the incredibly short notice it had for last night's performance, was remarkable. So were the uniformly clever and colorful costumes. This being a commedia dell'arte with updated themes and references...