Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joke. The $80-million fair is the result of luck, audacity-and hard work. The notion for a world's fair was born seven years ago when three leading citizens met for drinks at the Washington Athletic Club. Two members of the Chamber of Commerce and a newspaperman convivially agreed that it would be nice for Seattle to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition with another, grander fair. By the time the three reached the label on the bottle, the fair was no joke, and things began to happen. The city pledged $10 million...
...then, as all politicians and comedians occasionally do, the President laid an egg. In his speech to the unionists, he cast Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg in the leading role of a joke that he had been clinkering around for at least six months. Goldberg, he said, had been lost on a mountain-climbing expedition in Switzerland. "They sent out search parties and there was no sign that afternoon or night. The next day the Red Cross went out and around, calling 'Goldberg-Goldberg-it's the Red Cross.' Then this voice came down the mountain...
John Wolfson has constructed himself a fantasy, or more precisely, a cosmology, a huge private joke of a universe which he has thrown rather diffidently onto the Loeb experimental stage and asked an audience to enjoy. That is what strikes one first about Dr. Plantagenet, the sheer nerve of the play. Shaw's Back to Methuselah seems by contrast extraordinarily limited in scope...
...stands alone contemplating the difficulty of human communication, Genet represents the man who has been kicked to the ground and lies screaming. Only it's not a man at all: it's a woman and a homoexual and a convict. For, like the Atheist of the joke who antagonizes his religious friends by saying: "Sure, I believe in an anthropomorphic God: she's a Negro," Genet warns that White Christian Civilization must face up to its outcasts...
...Council's General Secretary, he builds church unity by accenting common beliefs, by deprecating differences, by shunning extravagant or unripe measures. Yet a quiet faith that all Christians, including Roman Catholics, must eventually unite gives his life a clear direction. It is a just barely permissible joke among his closest friends to call Visser 't Hooft "the Protestant Pope." He replies with a wintry "I'm not infallible"-which is a rueful recognition that his job is touchy and hard, but also a proud admission that he has succeeded in shaping the World Council into an important...