Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American sportsmen (joke) cannot conduct themselves as true sportsmen, viz., the most recent tennis fiasco in Australia, let's keep them home and not remove all doubt from the rest of the world as to American bad manners...
...Russian soldiers, ragged and cold and hungry, roll through the night behind the battle lines like cattle stacked in a boxcar and heading for the knacker. They look at each other, they look at what life has done to them, and gently one of them grins and makes a joke; another takes it from there, and suddenly all together they laugh and laugh and laugh until fate's narrow boxcar bursts and the theater booms with an immense amen to life...
...Macdonald takes a dour view of the future of this comic ghoul among the arts. Life, he seems to think, is getting beyond a joke. "The real world has become so fantastic that satire, of which parody is a subdivision, is discouraged because reality outdistances it. What can a satirist add to the U2-Summit-Meeting fiasco? Or to the dealings between the United Nations and Premier Lumumba of the Congo Republic-the latter a character right out of Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief? Indeed, in the Congo tragicomedy, history seems to be parodying itself...
...into a darkened grotto. Such goatly matters as remain are dealt with by an adroit blending of taste and truth, e.g., "Demeter had been rather wild as a girl, and nobody could remember the name of Persephone's father; probably some country god married for a drunken joke at a harvest festival." For young classicists who outgrow such simplicity, the author forehandedly has prepared two thoroughly adult volumes: his unsurpassed dictionary, The Greek Myths, and his fascinating and much argued-over book of theorizing about the origins of myths, The White Goddess...
Payoff on Gamble. The ad was no joke to its author, James Bryan Choate, 35, a lanky Texan, or to the Brazilian territory of Rondonia (pop. 65,000) where he lives. For Choate, it began the payoff of a $125,000 gamble to tame 500,000 acres of jungle. To Rondonia it signalled the start of local industry, a supply of jobs as well as caninha. The territorial government willingly blessed the venture with a five-year tax grace...