Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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REMEMBER WHEN you told your first dirty joke? How you sort of giggled and looked nervous because you weren't quite sure if you understood what you were saying? And then you had this feeling that what you were doing wasn't right, but that made the joke even funnier. This season's first Harvard Summer Theater production, Cloud 9, is a lot like that first dirty joke...
Just a few months ago, Lyndon LaRouche was widely regarded as a weird joke. A 63-year-old former Communist, he now lives in millionaire-style luxury on a heavily guarded, 174-acre compound in Virginia, wages fringe presidential bids and is head of an eccentric and paranoid political movement. At airports around the country, his impassioned, clean-cut followers hawk propaganda calling for the quarantine of AIDS victims and accusing numerous notables, including Henry Kissinger and Walter Mondale, of being Soviet agents. But when two LaRouchites posing as mainstream candidates won the Illinois Democratic state primary nominations for Lieutenant...
...joke is that, despite the magical aura that surrounds the Harvard undergraduate four years, education is for many here a quite mundane and even cynical experience. Harvard's undergraduate program may not be as laughably absurd as Brown's but neither is it as wonderful as we would like...
...would joke about the premarital sex issue," says Touhey. "But whether he goes home and prays for me I have no idea...
Another friend recounts an April Fools joke Melendez played on the Independent last spring, after the fact that the weekly newspaper paid no rent for its Canaday Hall offices was raised in a Council meeting (the Council has to pay for a smaller space beneath Canaday...