Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know why you keep putting your joke section under "Art" in your magazine. Artist Johns [Dec. 4] lets his beer go to his head, his beer cans to the canvas, and your Art section...
...Each time someone talks about slicing up Harvard Yard, everybody makes with the joke." Vellucci told his fellow councillors. "But it's no joke," he maintained. "It's the only sensible way of handling the Harvard Square traffic problem...
Imported from London is the redoutable Jean Littlewood's satirical revue Oh What a Lovely War (at the Broadhurst). The material is not newly minted, but drawn from actual records, memoirs and recollections of World War I. It's an evening of music and laughs, but every joke carries a dagger. Performing in this quasi-Brechtian production is a large and able British company headed by Victor Spinetti, Barbara Windsor, Murray Melvin, and Brian Murphy...
...woolens." Now if Mr. R. is using the word in its proper sense (something one can never assume with your writers), just what is he implying? That Miss Peruty is woolyheaded? Or that her arguments can be picked apart? Just what does he think this whole thing is, a joke...
Combing Wave. The letters offer no single exposition of Frost's theories of writing, but remarks scattered about the volume show something of his approach. He cuts off a good-humored parody of free verse with a perfectly serious joke: "But I desist for want of knowing where to cut my lines unhokuspokusly." He wrote to John Cournos, an unsuccessful novelist: "There are the very regular, pre-established accent and measure of blank verse; and there are the very irregular accent and measure of speaking intonation. I am never more pleased than when I can get these two into...