Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state legislature budget hearing, University of Oklahoma President George L. Cross was once asked why he wanted so much more money for his school. Answered Cross: "We want to build a university of which the football team can be proud." He meant it as a joke, and the remark does seem inappropriate today: Oklahoma's football fortunes have been on the decline since the resignation of Coach Charles ("Bud") Wilkinson in 1964, while Cross has been steadily nudging his school toward standards of quality achieved by such state university giants as California, Wisconsin and Michigan...
BLACK COMEDY mixes a technique of Chinese theater with stage business from vaudeville. It is strictly a one-joke play-about the goings-on when the lights go off -but the joke works. Peter Shaffer is the playwright, Michael Crawford and Geraldine Page the leading actors...
Nobody ever talks about things like this, whether they're good or bad. Like they'll joke about going to Vietnam, "Well, you're going for sure" or "Any more demerits and your boots not shined and you'll be there for sure." But that's the only kind of thing you'll hear. They don't joke about whether or not we belong there. And there's a good reason...
Nebraskan Politesse. Some of his seeming ad libs come from a computerlike retrieval system. He has apparently never forgotten a joke, constantly spins off variations on old ones. Once, when he and Exercise Expert Debbie Drake stretched out on mats for a demonstration, he asked: "Would you like to leave a call?" Last month, five years later, he was still using the same line when Singer Roger Miller was doping off during a discussion. Similarly, Carson's L.B.J. inaugural gag "As I was telling my bellboy, Dean Burch," was transformed a month later, during a CBS upheaval, into...
...companies who offer a five-day work week as well. Playboy clubs find it impossible to hire enough bunnies. And in Walpole, Mass., where The Kendall Co.'s fiber-products division needs 60 new people and the employment office is up two flights of stairs, the joke is: "If they can make it up the stairs, they...