Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote of the House to halt court action on redistricting [Aug. 21] is too important to joke about. The present favoring of rural representation in every state in this country is becoming an increasing problem. Taxation without representation was an issue in our American Revolution. It is rapidly becoming one with regard to poor city schools and roads, farm subsidies and the poor quality of state governments. Even congressional seniority that ties up so much legislation is ultimately a result of poor apportionment. Those 218 Congressmen have forgotten about separation of powers and federal supremacy. DANIEL NEUBOURG Staten Island...
...developed parliamentary agility. He has made the right tactical decisions, notably to risk several by-elections that he could have avoided; in sum they did not turn out badly for the Tories. He has been stumping the country, giving 29 rather tepid speeches and telling stories from the family joke book compiled by his wife. But his quiet jauntiness and aristocratic charm have gone over splendidly, while Laborite Harold Wilson's mixture of midnight oil and acid is unexciting...
Targeting Missiles. That is the only joke on the Street about Control Data, whose fast growth and aggressive stance have made it a favorite glamour stock. Last month the firm made a 3-for-2 stock split, the second in its seven-year history, and announced that new orders for June, the latest month calculated, reached a record $61 million. Needing space for its lusty growth, which boosted sales to $100 million last year, Control Data last week settled into a new three-building headquarters in suburban Minneapolis, which replaces the converted paper warehouse in which it has operated since...
...topical to be funny? In spite of the current Harlem rioting, Warren Miller, one of the best satirists (Looking for the General) writing in the U.S., has brought the joke off. In this novel about Harlem's first year as a nation, Miller mocks blacks, whites, and the whole racial fuss; yet beneath the hilarity is a clear warning: "Laugh at your peril. It could happen." Writing such a seriocomic novel is a feat of literary acrobatics, but Miller does not lose his balance...
...Peggy Cass, Dody Goodman, Harold Lang, Dagmar, Kaye Ballard, Jacques d'Amboise, Melissa Hayden, Vicki Cummings and lots of others-and everybody got dressed up in the wildest costumes while Cris Alexander took loads of simply outrageous pictures. Pat's manuscript had everybody in stitches. The joke was a good one when Cecil Beaton produced My Royal Past a generation ago; now, under Dennis' heavier hand, ersatz autobiography-with-snapshots is nothing but a drag...