Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE is a little joke going around in economic circles that at the time Henry Kissinger secretly went to China, Democratic Economist Arthur Okun was slipped into the White House by the back door and in disguise. His mission: to talk President Nixon into changing policy on inflation, jobs and the dollar. Indeed, the President's new package contains many ideas long advocated by Okun and the eight other members of TIME's Board of Economists. The board cheers Nixon's new activism. "It's a triumph in common sense," says Otto Eckstein. Walter Heller agrees...
...Standing Joke. The theologian pressed his case for 21 months, far longer than most U.S. priests now have to wait for laicization. Catholic University got itself into an unseemly tangle. Maguire had a contract that ran until 1972, which if served out would automatically have assured him tenure next year. C.U. President Clarence C. Walton, however, terminated Maguire's contract last May. The Academic Senate refused to endorse Walton's action, and a committee was appointed to resolve the impasse. Embarrassed by it all, the school's Graduate Student Association charged that the university was becoming...
...smashing. Soup (with flies) pours in torrents from under doors. The police arrive. The civic disturbance turns, absurdly, into global war, and then into an atomic Armageddon. The final scene, projected on television, is of the planet exploding-because of a fly in the soup. Ionesco's black joke scarcely exaggerates the monstrous disproportion, the near pathology, of latter-day anger. If every period has its characteristic emotion, anger must surely be ours-the mask of cracked civility, the furious heart beneath. Yale President Kingman Brewster described the comparative calm of the American campus last winter as "eerie tranquillity...
...where sand, salt air and suntan lotions have no adverse effects on its performance. These two suitable-for-summer novels are brisk, undemanding and unoffensive, except possibly to cautious Washington bureaucrats, Chinese Communists, members of the Italian-American Civil Rights League or Hungarians overly sensitive to the revolving-door joke (they go in behind you, but come out in front...
...bottom fell out. Her managers, in her version of it, were merely exploiting her sex appeal-and ineptly. With puppylike trust, Ann-Margret did as she was told. At 25, after a descending spiral of bike operas and drive-in fillers, she was a has-been and a joke to the industry. But in 1967, she married Roger Smith, a TV actor who had played in 77 Sunset Strip, and Smith and an agent named Allan Carr took over Ann-Margret's career...