Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destroy the profession's confidence in itself. For students and teachers alike, the new watchword seems to have become "caution," and, says President Virgil Hancher of the State University of Iowa, "Teachers were never meant to be cautious." To some extent, the caution is still something to joke about ("What, reading Communist literature again?" said a Princeton student, on spotting a classmate with the New Republic). But the jokes are not much more than a veneer. The academic motto for 1953 is fast becoming: "Don't say, don't write...
...splinter group which split off from the Young Democrats last October, yesterday told the CRIMSON he did not think the Democrats were serious about going through with the suit. He said he was sure the club had finished "blowing off steam" about what he termed that "rather old, stale joke." Curry added that "those irresponsible fools couldn't possibly win a civil suit...
...sweated it out (he went Skull & Bones); so had his son Robert (Bones), and Robert's political adversary, Dean Acheson (Scroll & Key). Even that fictional stalwart. Dink Stover (Bones), had trembled at the thought of Tap Day: "The morning was interminable, a horror. They did not even joke about the approaching ordeal. No one was so sure of election but that the possible rejection of some chum cast its gloom over...
...also shook the rafters with a few stunning fortissimos. Baritone George Gaynes, who is Rosalind Russell's leading man in Broadway's Wonderful Town, took a night off to play the part of the prince's scene-stealing valet, and indulge in some jaunty clowning. Biggest joke of all was John Butler's deadpan ballet-a sextet of nymphs and fauns taking authentic antique poses in long pink underwear-that started the audience giggling, and left it howling with laughter...
Ells was alone at his desk in the office when the robbers, wearing handkerchiefs over their faces, surprised him and announced that it was a hold-up. At first Ells though it was a joke, and remained seated at his desk...