Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carter's disgust turns quickly to sadistic pleasure in suffering: he becomes "infected with hysteria" at the "wildly funny" thought of being "kicked in the balls by a giraffe!" The whole appealing incident is, for him, a "good, dirty joke." Later, he is goaded by his wife into promising some sort of corrective action, but even at that point his only real concern is that "any carelessness...must be brought home to the offender...
...yields don't look for a smaller spoon at the table," he said. "Maybe such people should be given short pants and even wear them in winter so everyone could see that they hadn't grown up enough to wear normal-size pants. That's a joke, of course, comrades,'' added Jolly Nikita, "but I would like you to find a grain of truth in that joke...
...these methods to bolster ourselves, sometimes," said Alfred, but the section loses its value if this pretending to knowledge is not undercut. "The section man can joke his students out of their pretensions," he suggested. Most important, he himself must never pretend to wisdom he does not have...
While many people chuckled over the Lampoon's double-barrelled joke, others steamed. Among the latter was the Princeton Board of Athletic Control, which two days later voted unanimously to sever athletic relations with Harvard in all sports for an indefinite period of time...
Totally animated, Robert Morse never merely speaks lines. He dives after an ordinary joke with a twisting one-and-a-half gainer and makes it look like a pearl. With his mischievous small-boy charm, he is the most ingratiating eager beaver who ever gnawed through someone else's rung on the ladder of success...