Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asking Wolfe to respect the poverty program- that it dehumanizes all involved his prose unwittingly attests- but only to respect the basic seriousness of America's social crises. Instead Wolfe appears to blame the black for the white liberal's sins. And to pull off a good joke in the process. His only mistake was to alienate his potential allies- Bernstein et al.- within the pages of the same book. So while it may be chic to turn thumbs down on poor Tom, for once it might also be quite the decent thing...
...might say I was one of the few guys who didn't jump out of windows," he said, smiling. "There used to be a joke: a guy walks into a hotel, asks for a fourteenth floor room and the clerk says, 'Is that for sleeping or for jumping...
There are a bunch of "joke" gifts, those somewhat obscene things one finds at novelty shops. Sid has to present them, for the friends of my grandparents who put them together wished to remain anonymous. It is difficult to hold the crowd. One of the gifts involves, a prophylactic. Lil points to her husband, who has not been following the presentation, and yells, "He doesn't even know what one of those looks like...
...impact on young Patty Zuhoski was fast and hard. She says: "Before he left we discussed the possibility. If it happens, it happens. But we were kind of joking; every third sentence was a joke. But we knew what we were talking about...
...science of 'Pataphysics and his Caesar-Antichrist are the collective grandparents of the theaters of cruelty and the absurd. As Jarry lay dying at 34-of an acute brain inflammation caused by tuberculosis and aggravated by drink-he was obsessed by that image of death's anarchic joke, a skull and crossbones with its toothy eternal grin. To his last words he was defiantly absurdist: he asked for a toothpick...