Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...populace began to relax somewhat. The soldiers sometimes seized watches and jewelry, and they dealt ruthlessly with any kind of resistance, but in general they ignored civilians. One fighting unit, bivouacking in Schwarze Grund Park, shared food and candy with neighborhood children. Other soldiers took it as a great joke when they saw how their presence petrified some Berliners. Still, more than a little prophetic was the comment of a polite young Soviet lieutenant who told a Roman Catholic mother superior: "These are good, disciplined and decent soldiers. But I must tell you. The men who are following...
...mean, and the city room team was rusty. New York's Mayor John Lindsay, 44, made it clear that he can tackle all kinds of problems. "Anyone lays a hand on the mayor gets shot," called a police detective from the sidelines as the game began. He was joking, but that was the end of the joke. Lindsay's Lancers played touch like a varsity of muggers. His Honor himself drew 15 yds. for nearly throttling the opposition quarterback, one radio writer landed in the hospital with a broken knee, and several others limped home with scars...
...grand sense of theater. Sometimes he has needled: he querulously complained that Playwright Jean Kerr, wife of the Trib's Walter Kerr, kept nudging her husband while the performance was going on-the implication being that Walter's reviews reflected Jean's opinions. Sometimes, without bothering to explain the joke, he has secretly decorated his enemies with insulting little signs. Only last week, after years of resenting The New Yorker magazine's theater reviews, he inserted an advertisement in which the first let ters of each line form an acrostic that sort of makes a monkey out of the magazine...
...Savage Joke. Last week Merrick's Marauders struck again at Taubman's successor, Stanley Kauffmann. On a recent trip to London, Merrick found 100 copies of The Philanderer, a 1952 novel by Critic Kauffmann that falls pat to Merrick's purpose-the book was the occasion of an unsuccessful prosecution for obscenity in England. (" 'Darling,' she whispered. How lazy, a woman's first words after lovemaking; how husky and bare"). Cackling wickedly, Merrick bought up the lot and shipped it home. Then he mailed 89 copies to editors and columnists all over the U.S. -and ten copies to key editors...
...savage joke, but then Merrick savagely resents the power of the critics, and he will stop at nothing legal in his drive to whittle it away. "Sure, I'm playing this thing for publicity," he says, "but I'm also playing a deeper game. I want people to stop swallowing the pap these mediocrities are churning out and start thinking for themselves about the theater...