Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dunster also seems to provide adequate meals (which are made appetizing by the long walk which precedes them), but food in nothing but a joke in the other houses. The boys who run the grubwagons through the stream tunnels like Leverett best, though. It's at the end of a tremendous straight corridor which starts in the central kitchen under Kirkland. They say the best of them, if they take the first curve at a dead run, can coast all the way to Leverett. Of course the turnoffs at Lowell and Winthrop are festooned with multicolored blotches from power skids...
Student reaction to this communist indoctrination is well-expressed in the following joke. By way of explanation, the Russian work 'mat' means very strong swearing of an obscene nature...
...when automation was just getting under way, Norbert Wiener, M.I.T. mathematics professor and pioneer in the development of automated machines, forecast that automation would reduce wage earners to "slave labor," and bring on an economic crash that would make "the Depression of the '30s seem a pleasant joke." Now Wiener has changed his mind: man is becoming automation's master, not its slave. He cheerfully concedes that automation is "increasing man's leisure, enriching his spiritual life...
...most venerable cliché in U.S. humor is the mother-in-law joke. December Bride (Mon. 9:30 p.m., CBS), which translates the joke and variations to television, has astounded the industry by elbowing its way into the top ten. Nielsen and Trendex place Bride No. 5; ARB has it tied for sixth (with Disneyland and I've Got a Secret). Videodex and Pulse report it "consistently...
...massive Adams diary reveals a somewhat unhappy man. Of women he once wrote, "My attachment to them is not enthusiastic." Most people found him cold and personally unattractive. By his own account he liked a joke but was hopeless when he tried to make one, and in any case the matters that usually absorbed him were not to be joked about. He was never rich and often in debt. Tragedy came to him when his eldest son George ran into debt, got a young girl pregnant and finally committed suicide...