Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...During one dizzying 24-hour period last week, he offered a preview of what that campaign may be like-delivering three separate speeches, holding an impromptu press conference, alternately scolding and cajoling his critics, spinning out visions of the kind of nation he wants to help build, and cracking joke after joke...
...most concertgoers a generation ago, Joseph Haydn was the composer of only twelve symphonies (inexplicably numbered 93-104), a few string quartets and the Austrian national anthem. According to the music-appreciation crowd, he was a genial papa figure who enjoyed a joke at the audience's expense and turned out a great deal of tinkly, tinseled music to light up the ballrooms of the Austrian nobility...
Toby Hurd manages to extend one joke into a funny performance; Josh Rubins contracts a wealth of jokes into something not funny at all, except for a fine "Be Like the Bluebird...
...Will you get rid of De Gaulle," asked President Kennedy in 1963, "or will De Gaulle get rid of you?" The question, addressed to young French Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, was meant only partly as a joke. Even then, Servan-Schreiber was the most eloquent, most influential-and most consistent-critic that le vieux Charles had to endure. As a liberal who believed in the West, he abhorred De Gaulle's rejection of the U.S. and Britain as partners in the development of Europe. As publisher of the weekly newsmagazine L'Express, he has constantly attacked Gaullist...
When Joe himself leaves his own vale of laughter, it is the result of an unintentional practical joke, played by a friend whose analysis of Joe's humor always kills the joke. What is true of Joe is also true of De Vries: his gags are the defenses of a very serious fellow who has found no better way to fend off the daily slings and arrows...