Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind, however, Kennedy has obviously learned to live with the tragedy of Mary Jo Kopechne's death and his political misfortunes. In recent days, he has displayed a marked resilience. He has lost 20 lbs.-leading to a Capitol Hill sick joke: "There must be an easier way to lose weight." He is clear-eyed, the puffy jowls are gone, his hair is razor-cut in the back with the sideburns shorter. His handshake is firm once more...
...attended the birth of the anti-novel movement, making such notable contributions to the genre as Moderato Cantabile and The Sea Wall. In her directorial debut, she has unfortunately committed one rather crucial error. She seems to have been the only one who didn't get her own joke...
Winthrop House Senior Tutor Lance C. Buhl drafted the letter of apology. "Perhapsthis was meant as a joke, but it up-set me." he said. "I thought the House ought not to take it lightly...
Alan Heimert '49, Master of Eliot House and the Committee's spokesman, even made a joke about how some Faculty members no longer saw a distinction between the Administration and the Committee of Fifteen...
...convulsed by an even bigger crisis. From its powerful position in the early 60's, l'UEC in the last few years has become the standing joke of the Latin Quarter. After the Algerian War l'UEC tricated into the "Italians" (Supporters of the line of the Italian Communist Party), the orthodox members (staunch loyalists of the French Communist Party), and the "Gauchistes" (further divided into a Trotskyist tendency and a Maoist tendency). This bitterly divided house held together until 1965 when the French Communist Party, scizing an opportunity to gain in the national parliament, supported the non-communist candidate...