Word: joking
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Southern Californians have grown almost blase about their recurrent forest and brush fires, flash floods and mud slides. Indeed, some were able to grasp their Bloody Marys on the morning after last week's disaster and joke about their survival. Yet there is something singularly shattering to the serenity of nearly all humans when the ground moves; the earth is, after all, everyone's womb and tomb. So the forecast of worse quakes to come troubled even calamity-conditioned Californians as they slowly cleared the debris and tried to forget the terror that had started at dawn...
There is considerable skepticism as to whether Chile's masses will continue to support Allende's "revolution" when their turn comes to make sacrifices. A current joke making the rounds in Santiago's cocktail circuit has a government official explaining the "new Chile" to a peasant. "If you have two houses, the state takes one and you keep the other," says the official. "I understand," replies the peasant. "If you have two cars, the same," the official continues. His listener again nods. "It is the same if you have two chickens," the official adds, but the peasant...
...this distance one cannot know to what degree he used it as a strategic ploy) to act the salty curmudgeon when other artists were discussed. Most French painting he professed to ignore. "I saw a painting of a boat by Manet-to me it was a joke -to me Manet didn't know boats -didn't know the sea." Marin did, however, admire Boudin, the 19th century painter of seascapes and beach resorts-"He knew his boats." Indeed, there is more than a passing resemblance of spirit between Boudin's windswept promenades and sails leaning on empty...
Enter Bill Guenther '72, who lives across the hall from DiCara. Last year people used to joke about the Quincy triumvirate of politicians-Guenther, DiCara, and Ki?by Wilcox '70. DiCara has chosen Guenther as his campaign manager. "He's one of the few people who can criticize me and get me to listen," DiCara explained Sunday. "That's damn, I mean darn, important...
...real point of the Kilson-Kaiser/Sanders-Bey exchange, it seems to me, is not the substantive questions with which it purports to deal (Is the Black Studies program an academic joke? Is black racism rampant at Harvard?) but the psycho-dynamics underlying them. Any discussion of such questions threatens to bring to light the degree to which the brand of black militancy" now popular on campus is purely the creation of liberal masochism, and, as such, a phenomenon of group psychology rather than politics. But we must remember that the fairy-tale about the emperor's new clothes is really...