Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with meaning for our time. But as authors, Mr. Morey and Mr. Paul have consistently gone for the easy laugh. Somebody says "Barry Goldwater," and the audience breaks up, the way people used to at the mention of Brooklyn; and everybody feels great because he's in on the joke. But the situation is rarely exploited; brilliant ideas for scenes die as the authors milk the obvious punchline for all it's worth, and then the actors limp off stage...
Beyond that, there is the possibility-once just a joke about the numerousness of the Kennedys, now sometimes talked about seriously-that Bobby might try to succeed Jack in the White House. Any mention of this notion angers Bob Kennedy. "This idea is so obviously untrue." he says, "that it's foolish, even as rumor." Voters might agree. Bobby lacks his brother's easy grace; he is earthier, bristling in his loyalties (the U.S., Jack, and his church; other Kennedys; other Democrats), implacable in his enmities. Jack has been called the first Irish Brahmin; Bobby is the Irish...
...syncopated scene changes, which jump from a key word or object at the end of one segment to the same word or object at the start of the next. Coincidence is not a logical nexus, merely a clever one, and it's grating after you get the joke...
...fallout protection is no joke. But this pleasant little pamphlet, by showing us how easy survival really is, offers us solid reassurance that when it comes to nuclear war we can thwart the Commies every time. They're even helping us do it. To begin with (and this is what the pamphlets' authors posit their entire civil defense program on, the enemy apparently plans to use only five-megaton "nuclear weapons." ("There are much larger weapons which could do more damage, but the damage from larger weapons does not increase in direct ratio to the size of the weapons...
...characteristically wry Jewish joke is that the Germans have reached the point of forgiving the Jews for what the Germans did to them. Despite occasional outbursts of anti-Semitism-three weeks ago rowdies toppled most of the gravestones in the Jewish cemetery at Barsinghausen -Germany's Christians have made many amends. The West German government has paid out $3.4 billion in postwar reparations to the worldwide Jewish community (with $2 billion more still to come), and it has cracked down hard on swastika painters. Thirty-one German societies promote Christian-Jewish friendship...