Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What puzzles me is the fact that Johnson is making a joke of being President. His driving escapade in Texas, his reception of tourists at the White House, and his crude conversations are not characteristic of a good President...
Still the Kirkland players do well by Euripides in presenting an Orestes which becomes sardonic and satirical. When Appollo arises to save the assembled from destruction in the burning house of Atreum, the deus ex machina is not a convention but a joke; it's almost as if the Glorious Messenger has come to the rescue of Mack the Knife. The disparity between real and ideal which is developed throughout, the absence of any solution to the general corruption, is neatly brought home by Guzzetti's staging of a totally unconvincing resolution...
Most likely, the whole thing was a silly practical joke perpetrated by some unidentified West German journalist who had the witting or unwitting help of the innocent or gullible D.P.A. In any event, the whys and wherefores of the case clearly did not intrigue the Russians. Despite D.P.A.'s apologies, the Soviet government closed the agency's Moscow bureau and expelled its single correspondent...
...part of SNCC's philosophy has not changed: the firm commitment to nonviolence. Some workers may joke about starting "a small Mau-Mau" or quietly express their belief that unless victories come soon in the South, race warfare could erupt. But these fears only increase the sense of urgency and dedication toward proving that nonviolent tactics can succeed. It seems tragically certain that there will be violence in Mississippi this summer; yet it is equally certain that such violence will not come from anyone associated with SNCC...
...Joke. The argument makes little sense to most Protestants, who generally regard birth-control methods as morally neutral and the motive for using them all-important. Many lay Catholics also find the church's reasoning fallacious, and Pollster Lou Harris reported in February that by a 3-to-2 margin a sampling of U.S. Catholics wanted to see a change in their church's attitude toward birth control. Rhythm, they argue, is unreliable and moreover, its complement of thermometers, charts and calendar watching makes any theological defense of the method as "natural" seem like a bad semantic joke...