Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Andy Warhol's cover illustration portrays the antics of monkeys in a sideshow. One might infer that today's teenagers make a joke of the responsibility inherent in their premature sophistication...
What is this? A joke? A nightmare? Insanity? It turns out to be a bit of all three, for headlines, history and the hospital itself are fictions of an ingenious Nazi conspiracy. The date is really June 1944. Only hours remain until Dday, and the man is a U.S. Army major (James Garner) privy to top-secret details of the Allied landings in Normandy. On a mission to Lisbon, Garner has been drugged and kidnaped, smuggled off to the Reich as a corpse. He awakes with six years of his life supposedly lost in amnesia. The story becomes credible...
...Linkletter has his subdivision, Dean Martin has his restaurant, and somewhere in the U.S., at this very instant, some poor infant undoubtedly is being christened Rock Hudson Whosis. But Bing Crosby can go them all one better: he has a practical joke named after him. The Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur golf championship is $84,500 worth of practicality and a barrel of laughs. Remember Arnold Palmer, who took nine strokes to get down on a par-three hole last year? And Bob Rosburg, who six-putted a green? And Bob Harrison, who joined the ranks of golf...
...implication is that after the revolution is really now. The Negro cause has made such headway that Negro comedians are telling a new kind of joke. People used to think of Negroes as going around with fried chicken in a paper bag, Cambridge says. But things have changed. "Now," he says, "we carry an attache case-with fried chicken in it. We ain't going to give up everything just to get along with you people...
...HCUA. Others who consider that student government at Harvard is a waste of precious time have ignored it, but they are a lesser breed than you. Hardly has a day gone by when your courageous pages have not declared to all the world that the HCUA is a joke! Less dedicated editors might have been tempted to cooperate with University officials and "student leaders" in drawing up plans to improve student representation at Harvard, but you would never compromise. It would have been easy for you to wage the fight on the simple-minded terms of the HCUA leaders...