Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never understood. The landscape flickers back and forth between realism and surrealism. The road along which the regiment marches "was not a marching straight into autumn . . . Under our marching boots the grass withered and faded." Through sucking mud and pathless rain, the soldiers march to Hill 317. They fight, joke, brawl, complain and die on the hill, forgotten by headquarters. Brooding over them is the gaunt figure of the Gravedigger Captain in his draggling coat, explaining to Adam Ember that he took the job because he wanted to be on the side of victory. "You don't imagine either...
...Have you heard the vogue?' Einstein asked Frank, 'people think apart from reality.' 'But remember, you started it,' Frank replied. 'Yes,' agreed Einstein, 'but it is not good to repeat a joke that has come off well too many times...
...booboisie." Third, they thought of themselves as the civilized minority. . . It meant one who a drank in defiance of the Prohibition amendment, b. looked with tolerance on violation of the marriage vows, c. was supercilious towards all religion, d. regarded politicians as rogues and patriotism as a bad joke invented by the American Legion and Daughters of the American Revolution, and e. took pleasure in shocking less--sophisticated members of society...
...come as thick as tarts in Montmartre-the audience sees them coming and begins to grin-but the script (by Robert Buckner) mereiy adjusts its monocle, stares, bows ever so sligntiy, and declines to pick them up. Guinness obviously does not care so much if the audience gets the joke; he wants it to see the humor of his situations...
...best, or worst, joke of all came when the Russian judge read out his part of the judgment. All were awed as "the Russian language rolled forth from the firm fleshy lips of this strong man like a river of life, a river of genius," but no one knew whether to laugh or cry when "it turned out that the Russian was reading the part . . . that condemned the Germans ... for taking men and women away from, their homes and sending them to distant camps where they worked as slave labour...