Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mind gone blank, eh? That's not surprising, since the hoopsters have never--no joke--been in that position. That's since 1901, sports...
Theirs is an ignorance of the impact of faculty members' offhand remarks, like the Native American joke one professor opened his course with last year, a gesture that prompted a handful of students to walk...
...This has all the effect of an assault and just can't be treated as a joke," J. French Wall '83, vice-president of HRGSA, said yesterday, adding that he hoped MIT officials would take severe disciplinary action against the fraternity...
...question their existence as a group becomes something of a sacriligious act. We need this "South" for reasons which are deeply buried. We need the South with its chivalry and shitkickers, because it is the only region which still seems to have a sense of place. Texas is a joke. The South, we hope, is not. It is the place of exaggeration--the vegetation is lusher, the corruption is more colorful, the women are more beautiful, the gentlemen more chivalrous. In the South, the story goes, there's that Southern hospitality. The Blacks are more Black, the racists more obvious...
...major impact on Soviet life, although most Soviets agree that the food situation is worse now than during any time in the recent past. Soviets do not understand the West's "preoccupation" with Afghanistan. Those members of the intelligentsia who already have entered into opposition to the state would joke about the intervention: Q: Why have Soviet troops stayed in Afghanistan so long? A: Because they haven't been able to find the person who invited them. But most Soviets see it as a non-issue. Some argue that Afghanistan lies on their Southern boundary and therefore they have...