Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What a joke April is. Nobody knows what to wear, and nobody knows what to think...
When Burns and Weld told Meese they were quitting, sources say, Meese at first laughed. "Is this a joke?" he asked. "No, Ed, this is no joke," they replied. Asked Meese: "Why are you doing this?" Burns said that Meese had an "appearance problem" that was hurting the department. Both men declared that in good conscience they could not remain...
...single approach can guarantee the professor a safe path through the hazards of an individual student's interpretation. "There are all sorts of approaches, but first of all you have to try to do it as straight as possible. Although these are matters of subjectivity, you cannot joke about it or be casual about it or be dismissive of it," Glazer says...
Those roused at 9 a.m. were not pleased. according to one witness. Many did not get the joke...
...Bach concert" and will leave "giving walking ovations." But rarely do such occassions occur. Schickele recounts only one ironic incident from a concert in Massachusetts where one disturbed patron approached the symphony ushers at the end of the performance complaining: "Are you trying to put some kind of joke over the audience...