Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characters, "makes a constant attempt to prove it is real." Russian-born Author Nabokov prefers to believe it is not. For him, real life ended with a bang in the 1917 Revolution. Ever since then he has quietly taken refuge in an elegant, ironic domain of private jokes and personal fantasies. Lolita made him famous because the private joke was also a public one that millions found appalling or appealing. His other works (The Eye, Pale Fire, Pnin, etc.) have been more complex fantasies. One of them is this prophetic, satirical play, written in 1938 and now gracefully translated from...
...Morris, the object of his bristling affections, strutted and slutted with a cynical sort of gusto. Though gifted with no greater vocal ability than others in the cast, she carried her songs with her eyes and Lenya-esque phrasing. Susan Levenstein--her daughter--made the most of a single joke, played the piano when necessary, and displayed her garters to advantage...
Touch's family is made up of dull, joke-cracking father Jack; shallow, bourgeois mother Ruth; precocious and sensitive son Tom (he's just won a national English contest); and maiden but equally sensitive aunt Emily. The action of the play centers around bringing Tom and Emily together, breaking down the walls of alienation which are physically represented by their separate garret-like rooms. Emily speaks to Tom only through monologues into a tape recorder, a device which Mr. Schwartz uses to great advantage...
...Verwoerd is a boor. Besides, the big concern of the group is the Chelsea soccer team's match, scheduled for this afternoon. They are the team's most ardent rooting squad, meeting every Saturday for lunch and the trip to the stadium. Chelsea has long been "a joke team," the New York Mets of the football circuit, but lately it has been winning, and, says Haywood, "we're seriously thinking of switching our allegiance to Fulham, making that the In team...
...principle, being able to speak a language is irrelevant to linguistics. (There is a standard joke that linguistic scholars at international conferences always have to act through interpretors.) But in practice, verbal ability proves very helpful--as concentrators who combine Linguistics with a modern language have found...