Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sell said that he changed his mind when the 30 students in the courtroom "giggled as though it was a joke" after he announced his initial decision. "They've got to start acting grown up." he said, A woman student present attributed the reaction to "relief...
...current marijuana legislation is not a joke. Dope laws are used selectively to punish political "criminals" like John Sinclair, a White Panther leader who has been locked away for several years on a very minor marijuana offense. The New York Times reports the suicide during a bust of an Alabama student who faced jail on a second marijuana offense. Sitting in our dorms it is often difficult to remember that thousands of other Americans are sitting in jail for committing the "crime" of getting stoned with their friends...
...Ionesco play and gives him dignity beneath the sloth. His sleepy Yogi the Bear voice is highly suited for the role and very appealing. The only defect of his performance is that he doesn't seem changed enough and truly defiant in the end. His defiance may be a joke to the audience but it cannot be a joke to himself...
...Lewiston, Maine fight-and by creating devices of his own-the Ali Shuffle during the fight and the poetry before it-Ali has done much to revive John-it-Ali has done much to revive Johnson (could anyone imagine The Great White Hope as anything more than a cruel joke during Floyd Patterson's reign?) and, in his way, has suppressed him... at least made the old champ safe for women and children. And as with Johnson, it has been Ali's style that has made him champion of the world. And like Johnson, he has been prosecuted under...
...joke is important, because Hughes takes it from an article in the New York Times. He is telling his sophisticated Boston audience at the start that he, an Iowa man, can speak their language. Hughes' oratorical reputation pictures him as a revivalist minister, but for the moment he submerges that image in order to draw in his listeners. Accordingly, he begins with the war. Laos is to China as Mexico is to the United States, he says, and how would we feel if enemy troops were stationed in Canada...