Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also a totally immersed Christian who knows his Bible, along with all verses of Amazing Grace, and considers neither religion nor kinship particularly joke-worthy. While Carter does not stem-wind like a "How long O Lord?" Frank Clement or Huey Long, he is a truly Southern orator. He is given to nostalgia, imagery and hyperbole. He declared in his acceptance speech in Madison Square Garden, for instance, that the U.S. income tax structure was "a disgrace to the human race...
...Frontiers. The proof announced by Mathematicians Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken in this month's math society Bulletin is no joke, however. They began by viewing the different possible maps that might be constructed in terms of simple and therefore mathematically manageable dots and lines. By this "graph" system, each country became a point; boundaries between countries became lines linking the dots. Painstakingly examining every imaginable map that could be fashioned out of these points and lines, Appel and Haken concluded that no matter how complex the map was, it had to contain at least...
Moore deftly links the potential destructiveness of Sheila's behavior to larger rips in the social fabric- particularly to contemporary Northern Ireland and to "Belfast bombed and barricaded." Sheila thinks it "a bad joke that when the people at home no longer believed in their religion, or went to church as they once did, the religious fighting was worse than ever." Later, during an argument with her brother, Sheila is blunt to the point of despair: "The Protestants don't believe in Britain and the Catholics don't believe in God. And none of us believes...
...That joke was told in Nazareth last week as bands of volunteers scrubbed down the city's scabrous Cactus Quarter for what may have been the first time in 2,000 years. They painted shabby schoolrooms, removed piles of rubbish and hacked away at overgrown cactus plants. "The city has no money and so we are doing the work," explained Ghassoub Matar, 22, a painter...
...start a fight. A good writer must know how to finish one. Czechoslovakia's Milan Kundera is a good writer, but like so many other dissident artists in Communist countries, the fights he starts in his satiric novels and stories are lost battles at the outset. In The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere and Laughable Loves, Kundera attempted to shift the combat to that more neutral ground known as the human comedy. Even so, he never really escapes the sadness and bitterness of recent Czech history...