Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open letter, Bok tries to paint himself as a "good gay" by denouncing the sexism of Pi Eta while saying not a word about the deeds of Weinberger and Botha and claiming that Harvard University stands above politics. What a sick joke! This in the home of the Kennedy School, where they draw up plans for a nuclear first strike and for the starvation of Central American peasants. This is the place where Vietnam war criminal Henry Kissinger received his training. This is the campus, where napalm was invented...
...swaying this important chunk of the electorate. Even the slightest misstep or misstatement can smash candidacies today; commentators seized upon Reagan's "there you go again" line in 1980 to help destroy Carter's credibility. This time the talking heads are at it again, though this time the joke may be on Reagan...
...MacFarquhar ran for Parliament on the Social Democrat slate in 1983 from the Derbyshire South district, the Harvard Government Department was in the unusual position of rooting against him. "I told him I hoped he would lose, but it was just a joke," says Fairbank...
...joke, a monk, asked why he flagellates himself, replies, "Because it feels so good when I stop." The flagellant who would be an artist has a higher motive: "Because the welts I raise make such attractive and meaningful designs." After the Fall, whose original production opened the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center in 1964, is a 2½-hour act of flagellation in which Arthur Miller's whips sear his own flesh and that of anyone he touched or who touched him. Two decades later, in John Tillinger's streamlined, harrowing off-Broadway revival, the scars of passion...
...teaching, albeit in the unusual format of dressing up as Lincoln, Washington, and Custer. He is the only actor who invests his part with the gentleness that great teachers possess. But Mulligan's work is wasted. No actor can really shine in a role that is essentially a bad joke. Yes, you guessed it: "You have to be crazy to teach...