Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political ladder. I'm not starting at the top. And I ask, since the question of names and families has been injected, if his name was Edward Moore-with his qualifications, with your qualifications, Teddy-if it was Edward Moore your candidacy would be a joke...
...establish social satire in Yugoslavia (despite the fact that as director of the National Museum he is obliged to take the government seriously). But his grasp of the satiric method is so masterful that he keeps several lines of intent running at once-the narrative, the lesson, the joke-creating an impression of charm, not bitterness, of critical appreciation, not disloyalty. To make a point, he follows Voltaire's example and speaks in Panglossian didactics: "When we do not want to think of something, it is best to forget it." Final Kinship. In Big Mac, moreover...
Moore writes of joke-words (squarsons and squishops are clerics who are also squires), long words (honorificabilitudinity, meaning merely "honor"), and grim words (heresy originally meant merely "private opinion," and in the shift of meaning to "private, sinful error" can be read a whole history of religious persecution). Sometimes he errs; the grisly U.S. neologism "finalize" means to confirm a tentative decision-not to finish. But the book is delightful, and to say more of its faults would be to make mountains of oontitoompses (Gloucestershire rural slang for molehills...
...going on things, Goldberg ordered a subordinate to get cracking on the Hodag dispute. Top aides were soon in a tizzy trying to locate what they assumed to be a classified Air Force base. Finally the Air Force broke down and admitted that it was all an interdepartmental joke-Hodag Missile Base in Hodag, Ark., is a fictional site where Milton Caniff s comic-strip hero. Colonel Steve Canyon, recently settled a labor dispute. Growled Goldberg sheepishly: "My God, a guy has to read the funny papers to find out what's going on around here." Stale Turkey...
...Memphis, where a huge Negro vote was created by the late Boss Crump for. his own political uses, incumbent Congressman Clifford Davis anxiously dubs as "very vicious" any criticism of his 19th century voting record on civil rights, has abandoned his campaign custom of telling a Negro dialect joke here and there. Five years ago, when Atlanta Businessman Ivan Allen Jr. was sounding out the all-powerful white rural vote for support in the governor's race, he backed an outlandish plan for resettlement of Negroes. Last summer, campaigning for mayor of Atlanta in a city with registration...