Word: joking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every psychologist is forced to modify Freud's theories of sexual determinism. . . . Your Medicine editor exposes nothing but his own folly when he equates Jung and Adler with Freud as the "Big Three" of psychoanalysis, and writes of the Freudian "monotheism" as though it were a slightly faded joke...
...begins to appear that we shall never be rid of the adolescent problem in American society. From the immensely funny "Brother Rat" to "Mr. Cooper's Left Hand," almost every possible joke about the teen-age boy or girl has been invented or exhumed. The wear and tear on such plots and gag-situations has been beyond belief, but the new show at the Wilbur shows the-horrible position in a new light...
...work, likeable or not. When she finally got into the part she fell in love with it. She feel so hard that the Director Siodmak, whose worries about Hayes Office approval must have been a little like a man wondering how Queen Victoria would take to an off color joke, had to tone down her performance. But despite all precautions, Miss Fitzgerald's salvation from limbo gleams handsomely through the Hays...
Some of the other law students, who knew that Jones had entered the Navy and was no longer in school, persuaded one of their Navy friends to assist them in a practical joke...
...counterpart, was his country's Washington Irving. His tales merely serve to accent the vastly different heritages of two Western Hemisphere nations. His own countrymen relish Palma's brigands and cutthroats because they are heirs to the tradition that life is a grim, bitter joke and had best be laughed at. Sample Palma ironies...