Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slightly sleezier, more tightly jammed Mass. Ave. of New Haven. Down Elm Street to the Old Campus where the freshmen live and where several coed games of frisbee and touch football dotted the quad. All over the campus there was something giddy in the air--like a giant joke that everyone was in on. Lots of smiling went on. People smiled at each other on the street and said hello for no reason. One ecstatic sophomore stopped me in front of Sterling Library and told me that seeing a girl at Yale on a Monday was almost more than...
...Gershon Rolnick" is at the end, protesting the Lampoon's anti-contraception march last month. Even though the whole thing smacks a bit of self-congratulatory free publicity for clever pranks, the ad is funny, and one suspects that the Poonies' hearts lie with this kind of straight-joke appeal...
...test of a good religion," G. K. Chesterton once said, "whether you can make a joke about it." Judging by The Shoes of the Fisherman, Roman Catholicism is an excellent faith indeed. This saccharine Pope opera is sober-faced and straitlaced, but it would be hard to imagine a parochial-school sixth-grader taking it seriously...
Against Harvard, Brian Dowling and his crew "can't miss," Yale believes. Sports Information Director Charlie Loftus expressed the New Haven consensus when he jokingly told Crimson coach John Yovicsin "We would like to invite Vic Gatto to speak at our victory dinner again this year." Some joke...
...himself and the commercial world. By contrast, Seltzer's crazy products are mainly dreamed up as a kind of cheerful game to be played with his dying son, and so become part of the sacred conspiracy of the living to make life seem less of a grim joke...