Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proved case in Britain. And to make sure that he was not a symptomless carrier, the authorities kept him quarantined for a while-not from people but from farm animals. To Brewis, even though almost 45,000 farm animals had to be slaughtered, it is all something of a joke. Said he: "My only worry was that I might have to be destroyed...
...skillfully as the British. The dignity and the distance, the pageantry, the speed to the spot of a national disaster, the miles of cut ribbons are something for the TV citizen to look up to and yet feel comfortable with. Sophisticated Britons consider it all a tiresome and maudlin joke and regard the royal family as the personification of squareness. But the general attitude is one of admiration, almost of religious reverence, and no one seriously wants to do away with the monarchy, if only because Britons can scarcely imagine an alternative. An indication of how seriously Britons take...
...published list changed the private ball to a public event, and gave the social columnists and sociologists a chance to move in. "Almost a joke," said Cleveland Amory, author of Who Killed Society? "Fond as I am of Truman, I think we can say that society is not only kaput-it is Capote." Max Lerner was reminded of Historian Daniel Boorstin's observation that the events of our time turn out, all too frequently, to be pseudo-events...
...joking!" hoo-ha'd Elizabeth Taylor, 34. Funny thing, but Singer Eddie Fisher, 38, was serious. On grounds of "extreme cruelty," he asked Los Angeles Superior Court to give him a divorce from Liz more than two years after she married Richard Burton. Eddie doesn't think Liz ever got a valid divorce, since he was not represented at the 1964 proceedings in Mexico. And to make the joke seem even bigger, he requested the court "to determine the nature and extent of the community property of the plaintiff and the defendant and that the same be divided...
...course not. We would have praised them for idealism and for courage. To raise the issue of discourtesy at such a time would have been treated as a joke...