Word: joking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, outspoken Painter Benton professed to regard the affair as "a big joke." This week the board finally decided to renew the contract, held: "No matter what anybody may think of Mr. Benton's book or his painting, there has been no question regarding his ability as an instructor...
...Sudetendeutsch Partei has said that it wants the Sudeten region given back to Germany. The Czechs grimly joke that if an anschluss were granted it would not be long until they were anschlussed, too. In point of fact, any dismemberment of Bohemia would be fatal to the Czechoslovakian Republic. Bohemia, seat of some 80% of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire's industries, is the industrial heart of the Republic. Effective and prosperous, it is the one island of conventional, economic well-being now in Central Europe.* Czechoslovakia is turning it over to nobody, and that is one reason...
...should be a teacher and scholar." But, to take one example, Harvard badly lacks the type of teacher capable of interesting the beginner, especially in large lecture courses. He has mentioned subordinating the quantity of research to the quality of mind, yet the "pressure for publication" is a serious joke among younger men of the Faculty, and quantity of production seems to them most of the battle in promotions...
REGARDING P-96'S PERPETUAL SUBSCRIPTION {TIME, MAY 9, 16}, UNLESS PROPOSITION IS A JOKE, WILL GLADLY TRADE SATURDAY EVENING POST, FORTUNE AND READER'S DIGEST WITH A SWELL HUNTING DOG OR A GOOD-LOOKING WIFE TO BOOT, OTHERWISE WILL PAY ORIGINAL PRICE...
When Trifles for a Massacre was published, horrified Left critics who had praised Céline's Journey to the End of the Night damned him as a Fascist. Dissenting, Novelist André Gide declared the book should be taken as a joke, although a dangerous one, being virtually a satire on the absurdity and vulgarity of genuine antiSemitism. Bystanding critics found another explanation in the detachment of modern French literature from French life, the tendency of writers like Céline to regard writing as a disinterested mental game, to be played without thought of the social values...