Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THREE YEARS NOW Martin Kilson has expressed the desire to become my agent," Richard Lyon '75 says. The joke is funny partly because Lyon is past the need for the kind of support Harvard can provide--his agent is Leonard Bernstein's sister. At 8:30 p.m. tomorrow night, Harvard will get a taste of Lyon's professionalism when he sits down at the piano in Adams House dining room and begins to play. Backing him will be a 20-piece orchestra and two members of the Kuumba Singers called the Gatson Sisters. The House will be packed, Lyon predicts...
...profoundest respect for objects and people, and a deep disrespect for most institutions ("I think the government is a kind of joke really"). He was aghast when he heard of fellow "documentary" photographers rearranging objects or people to suit their own needs. This to him violated the subject's integrity: he felt that the only control the photographer should have--the only way of imposing himself on his subject--was camera angle and distance, and that even these should be used with care. But even these he forsook when in brief intervals he took to the Chicago streets with...
...Eccentric rustics, of a sort peculiar to rural isolation, make up her little family. Old-Johan, the farmer's half-brother, almost dies of a snake bite that he is too reclusive to mention. A simple woman named Jenny destroys Anna's cabin when she takes seriously someone's joke that "it ought to be burned down...
...Documentary" and the winner will come up and say something nasty about President (Julie) Eisenhower and her foreign policy. Then he'll get booed down because President Eisenhower is a personal friend, benefactor and symbol of about half the people there. And Bob Hope will make a joke about...
...Spaniard visiting Moscow stops at the Kremlin wall, where his Russian host takes him to view Lenin's remains. "We have one like that," shrugs the Spaniard. "But he sits up and talks." That Madrid joke about ailing Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 82, would be merely crude were it not for the fact that it reflects a deep-rooted bitterness. After 35 years of living under a dictatorial regime notable mostly for its rigid stability, many Spaniards these days are worried about both the erratic course of the Franco regime and el Caudillo 's ability to run the country...