Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saito's Sato is a masterpiece deserving better than the slick superficiality of the cover story. One example: to label the Japanese Self-Defense Force as "something of a joke in an Asia that teems with massive armies" is pure claptrap. Japan's military potential, compared with that of other Asian countries, as well as that of all but a very few of the countries of the world, makes its small but excellent land, sea and air forces about as funny as a pocket battleship...
Corruption & Turpitude. Some joke. Malik and the other members of Indonesia's ruling triumvirate, General Suharto and the Sultan of Jogjakarta, have been trying for months to ease Sukarno out of the country. Turn by turn, they have gradually increased the pressure until last week it seemed as if Sukarno could hardly bear it any longer. All 21 parties in the House of Representatives signed a request to make General Suharto, the leader of the triumvirate, President in Sukarno's place. Even Sukarno's own Indonesian Nationalist Party urged him to step down while the stepping...
...waving a flag, making a speech, bringing aboard dirty clothing or bedding (subways are not for sleeping). Also forbidden: holding a meeting, singing, dancing or playing a musical instrument, and changing into a bathing suit in a station rest room. The rules may be ticklers but they are no joke: violators face $25 fines and ten days in jail...
...they retire to his bedroom as "Beethoven erupted in his finale." It is said that the story is a parody, but the author's intention is nowhere revealed. If it is meant to be a parody, it fails because of its length; at best, it's a five-line joke. Kershaw's story stands as one of the more misguided pieces of published fiction in recent memory...
...class agnostics and atheists. To whom will it appeal least? Nuns (who aren't a heck of a good market anyway). Who will benefit most? Lawyers, existentialists, loan companies, adaptable morticians. What group will be most resistant to it? Eskimos. To whom will it all be one big joke? Those who finally develop the knowledge to thaw us out and the common sense...