Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk to himself, but I doubt that there are many who keep up the talking as steadily. "This isn't tennis today," he said a couple of times. "Do you like one side of the court better than the other?" he asked himself at one point. "Tennis is a joke...
...nominee and chatted with him for 45 minutes before deciding on him. Despite widespread criticism of his role in selecting nominees, Mitchell seems outwardly undisturbed. As he spun a wheel of chance to select Washington's 1970 Cherry Blossom Queen, the Attorney General managed a small joke: "I have a very good idea how we're going to get the next Supreme Court nominee...
...artists carry no tragedy within us, even if we are in despair and do away with ourselves . . . our minds stand back to watch us suffering and thereby mitigate the pain as it were, push our troubles into the background, transform them into a spectacle over which we can joke or philosophize...
Burgess' insular joke book is old, but the joke is a good one and the author tells it with relish, as if for the first time. An example of the author's catholic English wit: loony squire replying to a patronizing remark of the vicar's about animal pleasures: "And don't be too hard on animals. There's a lot of good in animals, especially when they're killed and cooked...
...order to understand the extent of the Administration's claborate joke, one has simply to realize that the projected costs for pollution abatement in New York state alone are $1 billion. Even "Laugh-In" can sense the claborate ruse: " If Nixon's War on Pollution is as successful as Johnson's War on Poverty, we're going to have an awful lot of dirty poor people around...