Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Municipal League for its progress in race relations. In 1961, when Davis returned with a degree from the University of Buffalo law school, "you could feel the tension. The white lawyers weren't friendly. You sort of felt alone." Today, things are relaxed enough for Davis to joke with white judges about his greatgrandfather, B.F. Saffold, a 19th century justice on Alabama's supreme court. June Davis, on her job as a psychologist for the city schools, mixes easily with the integrated staff. Says she: "We get along fine, but I don't tell myself that...
...Joke. Victims of the terror include some of Uganda's best-known political figures. In March, Michael Ondoga was snatched off the street shortly after Big Daddy dismissed him as Foreign Minister. His body was later found floating in the Victoria Nile. In September 1972, six gunmen barged into the nation's high court and dragged off the Chief Justice, Benedicto Kiwanuka. He disappeared without a trace, as did George Kamba, a former Ambassador to West Germany who vanished from a reception that Amin was giving in his honor. Ugandans explain the missing with a wry joke that...
ALEXANDER PORTNOY complained that he was living in the middle of a Jewish joke--the Jewish joke of his whole life, as told to his shrink Dr. Spielvogel. That joke ended with Spielvogel supplying the punch line: "And now vee may perhaps to begin...
...stage is set for a direct confrontation between life and fiction, drawn around the question of what fiction can say and do about life. The novel as joke has here turned to novel as formal trick, parentheses within parentheses, document inside document. And throughout runs a sense that Roth has put himself on the couch, decided to give up fictions and smokescreens, but then gone back on himself: he can't help lying, he can't help making fiction even--or maybe especially--of his own life...
...trying to be winning, trying to disarm our reaction to all the ugliness in Tarnopol's life, trying to get us to laugh it all off. He confronts head-on the inevitable tendency to link novel and author by trying to turn it into yet another novelistic joke, luring us into the connection and then proving how unjustified it is, how distanced the material has become. He is trying to turn the joke on us, and in the process turn life into fiction...